Finding my own ARTIST’S WAY
In these overwhelmingly newssaturated times, coupled with monotonous WFH life, I admit I struggle to get creative work finished. My fingers feel cold and stiff on the keyboard, like I’ve got some form of creativity block manifesting itself as arthritis. I have self-diagnosed this as a creativity block.
The key to a ‘creative recovery’ from this, as you may once have been told by a WWF (Wise Writing Friend), is to give up. No, I’m kidding. They probably told you to try Morning Pages, a practice in which every morning, you write down a stream of consciousness onto three sheets of A4 paper strictly before doing anything else (you’re allowed to drink some caffeine; she’s not a monster). And no, this intuition-boosting practice is not as ‘woo woo’ as you might think; it’s a recommended technique for business people by Forbes, and celebs such as Alicia Keys, Pete Townshend and Elizabeth Gilbert have credited it with their creativity, the latter even crediting it with her bestseller . We can thank Julia, ‘the queen of change’ as dubbed by the New York Times, for sharing it thirty years ago in her 1992 bestseller . She has since shared it with four was based, in my eyes she is a living saint of creativity. In her publisher’s words, in fact, ‘creativity was a tool for survival – it was literally her medicine’. Though her former life makes for shocking reading, all I want to ask her about are her best recommended writing power tools.
