📚 ref - creative fuel

references, inspo & ideas about what it means to fuel creativity.

Rest is an investment in our creativity, not a tax.

I operate in seasons . Sometimes I’m in launch mode, other times I’m in build mode, and occasionally I’m in rest mode. I also flex my client work up and down depending on what else is happening in my life. I’ve learned the hard way that trying to do everything at once is a recipe for disaster, and so I try to get clear on my quarterly focus and the... See more

Growing a portfolio career with Anna Mackenzie

operating in seasons

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you’re in, and act accordingly. In winter, “the tree looks dead, but we know it is beginning a very deep process, out of which will come spring and summer.”

Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon

quote to support the introduction/framing?

collect -> create -> curate

a new creative process

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Anne Bogart

fallow periods. what are we actually trying to create? often we go into creative practice with an output in mind,; what if we paid more attention to the conditions? and those conditions change depending on the season our creativity is in: in fallow periods maybe it needs to be left alone, in expressive periods maybe it needs to be pruned, in growth periods it needs to be watered etc.

workshop warm up/icebreaker idea: what season are you in? take a moment to think and then share with the person next to you.

idea for workshop: me and Lucy could each map the “cycle” or map of our substacjs since we started them, correlating them with posts published (creative moments) and other life events? e.g. for me would be break up, started dating; for lucy would be acting etc. we could use this to illustrate that creativity happens in the context of LIFE and life