# The urge to create **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581 "2002-04-14T15:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581/21 "2002-04-15T16:57:14Z")
My profession was to create new mathematics. I guess I did reasonably well, since I have published some 75 items (mostly papers, but three books and some lecture notes). At one time, I got the urge to build furniture. Mostly, it was fairly poor to mediocre, but I made one coffee table that sits in my living room and that no one would imagine I could have built There are also a couple end tables also in the living room, but I am not entirely happy with them. Then I got my first PC in 1982 and stopped building furniture. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581/22 "2002-04-15T17:15:12Z")
**mack** , do you have a site or something where we can listen to your compositions? i do similar things myself, and am always interested in hearing other people’s work. ---
**Author:** ![PolishSausage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581/23 "2002-04-15T17:46:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Think of how the monkeys who love her I desire to create bizarre posts. 😕 ugh Also I am writing a couple of comic book(s). All the stories are in various states on completion. I have the desire to learn a musical instrument too. I tend to be a bit crafty. [Here’s](http://www.diynet.com/DIY/article/0,2058,6374,00.html) something I am doing for my back porch area. I hope it will look cool on an upcoming summer night. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581/24 "2002-04-15T19:30:53Z")
I create. This is as basic to me as eating or breathing. Everywhere I go, I take a sketchbook. I draw in it sometimes. At other times I take notes, jot down phone numbers, and generally scribble. When I was studying electronics, I did my English assignments in it and handed in the book. Occaisionally I write bad poetry, although usually only when I’m depressed. Fortunately, this is much less common now. I go to the [Toronto Comic Jam](http://www.sunspace.org/toonjam.html). I have at various times: - written science-fantasy stories about evil rabbits subverting the world (as part of the [Devilbunnies](http://www.devilbunnies.org/) shared world). - done web sites about [solar-powered housing](http://www.sunspace.org/), and Squiglitos, the world’s first virtual [snack food](http://www.squiglitos.com/). - tried my hand at classincal animation (at Sheridan College) - edited video (and when I get my tax refund, I’ll get that Firewire interface card!!!) - translated cartoons - drawn large pen-and-ink-and-watercolour [drawings](http://www.sunspace.org/myart.html) which I gave away as presents, on the theory that it was cheaper to do them than to actually _buy_ people things. (This was before I’d fully thought about framing costs or value of labour time.) Now I’m working on a bilingual science-fiction comic book. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581/25 "2002-04-15T20:19:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gex gex \* > **mack, do you have a site or something where we can listen to your compositions?** I would, except that would require me to actually finish my pieces. I do have the idea in the back of my mind that I ought to finish off a bunch of them, burn a couple of CDs and send them to some long-suffering fans. I gave a tape to a friend of mine maybe 12 years ago and now she listens to it all the time. The time is ripe for a follow-up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-urge-to-create/103581.md?page=1)