Trauma, death, accidents, the unknown, and...creativity.

Novelist Amy Tan explores connections between trauma, death, accidents, the unknown, and creating "something out of nothing," even authoring the story of one's own life: "When you are faced with the prospect of death very soon, you begin to think very much about everything. You become very creative in a survival sense...and this, then, led to my big questions...'Why do things happen?'...'How do things happen?'...'How do I make things happen?'...we all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet, it is also absolutely necessary in writing a story. It is the place where I begin...there is uncertainty in everything, and that is good..."

Do you have a sense of where your creativity comes from? Are you trying to channel more of it? Check out the link & if you feel like it, post your thoughts...