The Word Cloud

This one’s just for fun and nosiness. The thing is, I’ve noticed quite a few people on the Cloud who paint or draw – and quite a few others who play an instrument or sing. This is scarcely surprising: we may all be wordsmiths, but creativity will often spill into other areas.

But how many? My theory is this: we writers tend to have a second creative area, which will be either musical or visual but probably not both.

There: that gives plenty of room for amiable disagreement.

Do you both paint and play the saxophone? (But where do you get the time?) Or are you a words-only person? Or do you write, draw, sing, dance, make macramé lampshades and insist your garden is the highest form of art – all in between your acting work (and end-of-pier ventriloquist’s engagements)?

Maybe I’ll say what I do; maybe I won’t. But I do urge you to say what you do. Over to you...