The creative process.  I've been focused for the last 1.5 months on creating something new. It's amazing how much work it takes to do this. In the end you strive to make it look so simple and install so easily that it seems obvious and trivial. But after all that, if it worked, people are creating in ways they weren't before. That's the gratification available to creativity. These days it's rarely rewarded with money. Okay, that's the way it goes, and in some sense is the way it's always been. The reward of art is insight. The reward of achievement is the possibility of more achievement. Having done it once, you always want to do it again, the next time on your terms, but it never works out that way.
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Creativity is a process like seduction. The idea has to be teased out, you have to come at it straight on, then from the side, then sneak up from the rear. It isn't until you understand all facets of a problem that the solution is revealed, and then, if it's really a solution, it reveals a whole new class of problems. (The joy of platforms.)
100 SUGGESTIONS—If you love the country and delight in working
close to nature, you can find profitable occupation in a hundred
different ways. At the same time you can enjoy an abundance of
health, fresh air, exercise and the peace that comes with a life that
is lived out of doors.
Here are some activities that are proving satisfactory and profitable
to thousands. Select any one of these out-of-door activities
that is best suited to your nature and locality.
SUCCESSFUL EGG FARMING—The business of producing eggs scientifically
for market offers great opportunities even for the amateur,
for the demand always exceeds the supply of fresh country eggs. The
egg is the nation's breakfast food and a necessity in every household,
restaurant, cafe, hotel, bakery, and soda fountain.
Successful egg farmers choose as a rule the white Leghorn as the
best egg-laying machine today, laying more eggs on less feed than
any other.
The right location, the scientific system, and the correct hens to
start with, make a sure foundation on which to build a successful
poultry farm.
Write to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all bulletins of
information on marketing eggs, poultry, poultry raising and
feeding.
MONEY FROM FISHING—Deep sea fishing is hardly to be recommended
as a part-time engagement for obvious reasons. However,
spare time money can be made in fishing where the hazards are
not so great.
(1) Lake Fishing. A morning or an afternoon spent in fishing
at any of the thousands of lakes will result in a good catch of
trout, carp, and other varieties of fish, depending on location. These
fish can always be sold to the local trade.
(2) Clam Digging. Along the Atlantic Coast from Maine
down to Long Island during six months of the year there is ample
opportunity for any person to dig for clams. Two or three bushels
is a fairly good catch for a morning's work. You can sell them
at around $1.50 a bushel.
(3) Spudging for Eels. In the fall of the year, eels burrow
in the mud and remain until the spring rains and sunshine warm
the water again. The experienced eeler who knows where there are
muddy bottoms, will in the winter time chop a hole two or three
feet in diameter in the ice above the mud, and spudge around with
a spear, jabbing until he has reached every part of the available
mud. When he strikes an eel he can recognize it by the vigorous
movements of the spudged eel. It is not unusual to catch a bushel
of eels in a few hours' fishing.
(4) Lobster Catching. Along the Maine and New Jersey coasts
there is opportunity for lobster catching. Fish scraps are the best
bait. Lobsters bring a very good price.
RAISING TURKEYS—Turkey raising is another profitable part-time
activity. If you can afford a few months' study at your state
agricultural college, that will be all the study necessary to operate
a turkey farm successfully. Moreover, the demand for turkeys as
in the case of eggs is always certain. Seldom does one hear of a
surplus of extra-fine turkeys.
Methods of feeding, incubation, housing, and a host of other
problems make this occupation scientific.
RAISING TURTLES FOR THE MARKET—The price of turtle soup
is very high, but the wealthy make no protest and the turtle farmer
always makes a profit.
One successful farmer started a turtle farm by turning a number
of turtles loose on a piece of boggy land, which for a number of
years he considered worthless. He now has thousands of them,
and his enterprise has been more successful each year.
His first turtles were snapping turtles. He greatly improved
these by crossing them with a sort of chicken tortoise like the
leatherback. The result was a turtle grotesque in appearance but of
fine flavor.
He sells the flesh and eggs of turtles to hotels and restaurants
that have calls for these choice delicacies.
A VEGETABLE GARDEN—If you have a little land suitable for a
vegetable garden you can make even a few square yards pay you
a fair return for your efforts.
Whatever vegetable you may grow, whether it be radishes, parsley,
or corn, you will find your neighbors eager to buy your entire crop,
for they prefer at all times fresh vegetables freshly plucked from
the garden. If your crop exceeds this neighborly demand, send your
boy or girl out with a basket of these vegetables to other districts.
By calling at a number of kitchen doors, it will not be long before
they will return for another basket full. Or if you drive a car,
load it up with vegetables, station yourself along a main automobile
road and see the larger number of eager buyers from the city.
A large variety of vegetables can be grown successfully without
expert agricultural knowledge such as beans, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers,
onions, peas, potatoes, squash, beets, etc.
The Government Printing Office publishes a number of bulletins
dealing with the best methods of growing these and other vegetables.
Write for detailed information.
SELLING SEEDS—Many farmers are in the habit of patronizing
seed houses for their seeds for Spring planting. Unless the crops
have been poor in your own neighborhood, it is very likely that
local seed can be selected which will not only germinate with as
high a percentage as seed purchased from the dealer, but will be
ideally suited to that locality.
I think I got there this time. I have to wait a couple of weeks before taking the next step. Now I have to get ready to get out of town. There may be more writing here, maybe not. We'll find out soooon enough! 
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