on personal pattern making
Morning pages don't work for everyone. Daily writing isn't holy. Some of us need to binge-create for 72 hours then disappear for three weeks. Some of us write best at 2am with a crying baby in the next room.
Stop pathologising your pattern. Start honouring it.
Lois Macsubstack.comLooking back at it now, one thing I learned from not doing my first solo album till I was 27 was to try to create an even flow. Like, don’t hold your breath for five or seven years and not release anything, and then you’ve just got clogged up with way too much stuff. I think that’s what you gain from that. Maybe you’ve gained some immaculate, perfe... See more
Björk on creativity as an ongoing experiment – The Creative Independent
One thing I would suggest is finding a way to make a lot of things and put them out, just to get a cycle going, without even thinking that it’s for anybody or that it’s going to accomplish anything. But every time you put something out, it makes it that much easier to put something else out. So you’re creating a sense of freedom in maki
... See moreEric Skelton • Creativity, According to Rick Rubin
I used to write about "creative productivity" - until, slowly, I realized that trying to be "productive" while making creative work is like trying to train a wild, mysterious jungle cat. it is not a dog. it will not obey you. the cat will do whatever it wants - when it wants. however, even wild animals have rhythms, routines, and safe spaces. inste
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