If you are creative you have, undoubtedly faced some type of block.
It could be severe like being unable to create your art at all or mild in so as you just don’t like what it is you are creating or it’s not coming out just right.
I’ve been there.
A lot.
Actually, I’m there right now as I write this blog post.
The words feel muddled and perhaps a bit forced as I struggle to convey my meaning, yet a truck through. Awkward and unbalanced but hell, I’m writing aren’t I?
Sometimes, that’s all you can do.
In fact, I would venture to say MOST times that what you should do.
Sit down and paint the crap out of that canvas.
Write the most God-awful piece of poetry that ever graced a writers forum.
Just don’t stop.
The truth is, when you write the crap, or paint the crap you have released it out into the ethers. The words that were forced and harsh, the colors that were mudding and lifeless are gone from you.
Leaving space for the magnificence that is your true creative muse.
Another thing I have found helpful is having multiple creative outlets. When writing has me stumped so badly that I just hate it. I cannot possibly look at the notebook or screen anymore and am convinced that I should just give up this whole publishing thing and just write for me. Privately, in my own room where no one will ever see the shit that I have managed to string together and call story telling.
It’s those times where you can benefit from stepping away. Getting out of your own way and do something that is fun and perhaps you care a little less about.
You know the thing-the creative outlet that is just fun and you do it just because it’s fun.
Sometimes, those multitudes of expression are what move you through and to the other side of a creative block.
One of mine is smash booking and I really feel like I finally get smash booking.
It’s not like scrapbooking where you are creating this page that expresses the emotion behind a particular photo.
It’s not journaling.
It’s just gluing stuff you like into a book.
In no particular order.
I like that.
What do you do to overcome creative blocks?
You can check out my latest smash book session with the video below.
Until Next Time…
-Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante