Creative Limitation

• Robert Frost: writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
• Principles of Creative Limitation in STORY. By defining your genre, you can reach a higher intensity with LIMITS than complete freedom. "Genre conventions are the rhyme scheme of a storyteller's 'poem'" (91).

I know this principle of creative limitation isn't restricted to the art of storytelling, but bleeds into all realms of art, business, morality, and life.

Even in Middelmann's class, it's so interesting that all the modern philosophers were searching for freedom by creating an organized perception of reality. In the search for truth, the goal is freedom. It's just that complete liberation doesn't give people what they're searching for. I'm reminded of why my heart belongs to God. Besides being truthful, Christianity practically brings the freedom it ensures. It doesn't make lofty promises, but gives you an accurate perception of reality that allows you to live in the tension of brokenness and the inherent hope for Utopia.

Thank you God for limits. Help me know them well so I can live creatively, and wisely :)