Creative Comeuppance

There comes a point where every creative process will meet cold hard reality. Good ideas are simply lost to the ethereal goo if pen doesn't hit paper. Think if Shakespeare, DaVinci, Shaw had never committed their ideas to hard copy.
By the same token the creative film director who can't coordinate the nuts and bolts process will never see their vision to the light of day. It's the kind of thing that gives me respect for some of these big names who have pulled off genius but eventually get written off for some notable mediocrity. Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsse. People like me lack the sheer concept of moving something from idea to footage that these people figured out 20 years ago. It takes a certain tenacity, mode of means, and devotion to bring forth creative ideas in a medium that others will discover. Just because everything we see isn't a home run, doesn't mean we should discount their entire body of work.

How many genius ideas have been borne and lost within a single mind, with no concrete document of it passing. For a gross estimate, what if all the content we see only constitutes one half of the great ideas that have been created. How many stories, sculptures, films, paintings, operas, dances never saw the face of light because they were trapped inside someone's mind. My guess is that the percentage is far greater, but there is simply no way to tell who many works of genius have been lost over the years.

What would have happened to Michelangelo's body of work if his hands had been crippled as an infant rendering him unable to paint?
History is written by the victors. As is art. Not to mention those who put their works in media mean to last. Stone lasts longer than parchment, paper longer than these magnets I trust to my thoughts. Are there whole cultures, entire archetypes and unique stories wiped out simply because their methods of transcription couldn't survive over time? It is just as foolish to think we are the lone intelligence in this universe as to think we have seen even a fraction of the history that once existed.

What am I getting at? Create something. Put it to stone, to paper, to 0's and 1's. I truly believe that every person born to create something unique and amazing. So few will survive time and decay. Don't loose your story to the short memories of our lifetimes. We are far too important to be forgotten.