This is where I share articles about creativity and storytelling, designed to spark, support and champion your creative growth and goals.
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Learning to trust is one of the most valuable tools you can have in your storytelling toolkit. It will support you every step of the creative process because trust enables action. And action is the only way we ever get our stories written. The question is; how do we trust when faced with all of the doubt the creative process triggers?
What if, rather than fighting and fearing the mess and the discomfort of the creative process, we learned to embrace it, enjoy it even? What if we stopped seeing it as something that was standing in our way and instead saw it as an essential detour on our writing journey, helping us to get where we most want to be? And what if, the mess and discomfort were leading us closer to discovering our creative treasures - would they be worth it?
There is a big misconception about the creative process and that is, if it’s all a bit of a mess, not making sense, and not going according to plan then, it’s not working. There is an even bigger misconception, that if it’s not working, it’s all your fault. Hear me when I say; It’s not you, it’s the creative process!
One way to get your creativity blossoming again is to Cultivate a Creative Practice. I like to think of a Creative Practice as a protective bubble that holds, supports and nourishes your creative process. Ultimately, cultivating a Creative Practice helps you do the creative work you most want to do and most importantly, finish it. Here are 10 Ways to help you cultivate your own Creative Practice.
Play is the tool that unlocks our creativity, which means our ability to play impacts our ability to create. One supports and strengthens the other. The more freely you’re able to play, the more freely you’re able to create.
When it comes to our creative work, often one of the biggest block’s we encounter is Resistance. If we let Resistance go unchecked, not only does it completely disempower us, sabotage our creative efforts, destroy our big creative goals, it limits our creative potential, which is why, it’s so important we know how to overcome Resistance, whenever it shows up.
Writing my novel THIRTY was nothing short of an education in creativity. Like most things in life, the greatest lessons I learned while writing the book came through the mistakes, missteps, and stumbles I experienced along the way. In this article, I share 30 of my most valuable lessons about creativity.
So many of us struggle when it comes to owning our creativity and feeling credible enough to call ourselves creative. This lack of creative confidence can quickly become one of our biggest creative blocks, and if we're not careful, the only thing we ever create is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're struggling to give yourself permission to call yourself creative, then this one might just be for you...
Are you struggling to get your creative juices flowing?
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Craft and Creativity are two entirely different entities, you do not need one to have the other and having one, does not legitimise the other. HOWEVER, when you can combine both your Craft and your Creativity, not only do you give your Creativity a vehicle, platform and voice to be expressed and realised, you begin to elevate your Craft to a whole new level. This Creativity Lesson shows you how…