Are You Copy-Based (Text) Or Art-Based (Visual)? Are You A Writer Or A Director?

I always say, "I am life-based."

It's a trying-to-be-witty a remark for a question that has blurred the lines of creativity,
but still persists to know which area is your roots or forte.

It's the same thing in films where they think writers are responsible for simply dialogues.

Scriptwriters define which scene goes into a film, what message should be imparted,
then the directors translate the vision into a cinematically-friendly language. They even
define the framework, and flow of the movie.

Writers aren't word-based. Although its their field of discipline, writers are creative.
The way artists are not just visual thinkers, but they are creative thinkers.

They are even surprised that a writer like me don't read books.
It's not an aversion to the lengthy written word, but more of my short span of attention.
That is why movies appeal to me. That is why a 30-second ad appeals to me.

Writing words, is a field of specialty but not necessarily the core of the writing profession.
It's thinking, as in any area of art. A painter thinks before he paints, a composer
thinks before translating it into notes. A sculptor thinks before carving. An actor thinks,
before he acts.

Creativity is boundless. You don't know where the vision or creation came from.
It doesn't necessarily mean it started with the word, as the bible begins with,
"in the beginning, was the Word." Of course, God's vision was to create.
He must have not started by saying it, but by thinking about it.

Words are simply expressions or tangible manifestations of an idea.

Ideas aren't word-based, nor are they visual-based. But the inspiration
can come from a word, or a visual, or even an object, or a person,
a place, or a feeling or anything that is even invisible to the naked eye.

In fact, sometimes words get in the way. The way, sometimes, too much
music can get in the way of how we should feel towards a scene.

But the writer doesn't begin with writing, but imagining.
Imagine there's no heaven, for sure didn't begin with words,
but with an ideal as an idea.

Funny, when they say, the dialogue is good, they think of the writer.
But when the theme or vision or statement is good, they might think of the director, I think.
At least they credit the writer for the story, which indeed, was
a figment of the penman's mind. But not all stories, actually,
originate from the wordsmith. It must have started from a producer,
or a director.

Remember, when someone says, "I have an idea?"
If you don't know the field of discipline from the one who started it,
it can be a very visual person, or a word-oriented person.

"I have a story in mind." Yes, it's often peddled by writers.
But a director can initiate that too, even Mother Lily always does that,
as a producer.

A creator can be anybody.

It's in the details when an idea is executed where the writer will emerge,
or the artist, or the production designer, where the mastery of an aspect
of a creation comes out to come up with the whole.

But whether you're copy-based, or art-based, or yes, even, Math-based,
it all starts with thinking. Words nor pictures can never capture
what goes in one's mind during the creative process.

Everyone is life-based at the very least. Unless you were born dead,
but managed to write even if you're lifeless, or you have been dead
to write about death.