Top 10 list of Creative Endeavors
When it comes to living a creative lifestyle, we often know deep down what keeps us going. For me, it’s a myriad of regular activities:
Walking
Keeping lists
Daily Affirmations
Sketching in my pastel journal
Connecting with fellow artists
Keeping an image folder
Treating myself occasionally to new art supplies or books/mags on art
Checking out local art events
Experimenting with new methods [...]
I need to write.
Okay. Let me be straight with you.
Normally, on a good day, I am churning out something around 10,000 words per day. In total. All the papers I have to write for school, website esoterica, dabbling in science fiction, poetry, etc.
When I am in a good writing streak, it seems as if everything in the [...]
Stepping out of the world…
I love to write. Primarily, I write fiction. I also have quite a number of papers that I must write in school at any given moment, my various journals, poetry, and of course, contributing to surrealmuse.com. I generally write anywhere upwards of about 10,000 words a day. Yup, I like to [...]
drawing as a form of meditation
The past two years I have told myself that I’m going to get serious and practice my drawing skills. I even got a couple books on the topic. The first one, The Artist’s Sketchbook, seemed so inspirational at the bookstore. But when I got home, it felt more like homework than a [...]
Different Forms of Artist’s Block
With this recent experience with artist’s block, I’m coming to realize that it is caused by different reasons. For some, it maybe as simple as lack of ideas, which can be remedied by taking your inner artist on an adventure. Go out to art galleries, art museums, maybe even the thrift store…anything that [...]
Dangerous Art
The other night I dragged out my book on artist block, Fearless Creating, in hopes that it might spark some inspiration to create art once more since typically I only have to re-read the first chapter to find my muse. Well, this time was different…this time I started to understand one of the chapters [...]
Where does one begin?
In our culture of the now, we often demand the things we want. But often the greatest things in life cannot be bought or forced…love being one…creativity being another. Both of these forces in life have to come to you when the moment is right…
When the muse enters your life, she sweeps you [...]