A friend recently posted about creators vs. consumers. Her point was 1% of people create. 5% respond, and the rest consume. Depending on who is measuring, that could be a 1-9-90, but the point is that the creator division is small, and the consumer division is large.

I admit to being a consumer when it comes to words. I read a lot, daily at minimum, some days, all day long.

I read fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, young adult books, lessons, courses, articles, posts. I would rather read than just about anything else, except perhaps writing and walking on the beach. The new way to capture attention is video and audio – through YouTube and podcasting – it just isn’t the way I prefer to consume.

Aside from words, I don’t consume much else – food and fuel maybe, but the rest of it I can do without. It helps that I live in tiny spaces, and there is no room for stuff.  I also don’t fall on the responder level. I tend to lurk on social media; I only respond when it feels important.

But creating is where I feel most at home. When the words flow, when I’ve got my markers or paints out, when I’m planning.  Planning is a big part of creating, although most creators get stuck in this spot. It’s probably my favorite; I enjoy planning way more than execution. In my corporate days, I wrote business plans for fun. As an accountant, there wasn’t much creativity in my work, so I spent time dreaming about businesses that could be started and how they would work. My plan was to implement after I left my corporate job, and I’ve done that a few times over now and still plan more.

Where do you fit on the creator vs. consumer scale?