There are two major reasons why we don’t think we’re very creative. First, we don’t stop to remember, and to gather up the evidence of all the creative projects we’ve worked on in the last week, month, and year. Second, we have such strict rules about what creativity and being [...] Read more »
How To Stop The Stories And Uncover The Truth About Your Creativity
If I asked you how creative you are, would you tell the truth? Would you take an honest look at all the many ways your creativity is constantly being exercised each and every day, or would you spin me some fictitious story about it instead? I’m not suggesting you would [...] Read more »
How To Disconnect From Deeply Destructive Programming
Wherever we are on our journey as artists, there’s likely to be a deep level belief or two that’s holding us back without us realising. You might be merrily creating at what you think is your full capacity, and creating plenty of good work, but there’s always a nagging doubt [...] Read more »
Give Us More You
What’s the secret element in a piece of art that makes us react on a deep, emotional level rather than a superficial one? Is it possible it somehow give us a temporary yellow brick road home to a beautiful part of ourselves that we’ve always known, but often forgotten? A [...] Read more »
You’re Completely Uncreative (And The World Is Flat)
I’m very confident that you’re about to lie to me. How can I possibly know this when I don’t know you? Because I’m going to ask you how creative you are. Whatever you answer, I know you’re not going to tell me the truth, the whole truth, because you’re [...] Read more »
How To Be A Real Artist And Stop Feeling Like A Fake And A Fraud
I’m really scared that one day I’m going to get found out. That the truth will be revealed that I can’t really write at all, whether it’s prose or poems or blog posts. I live in terror of being held up as a charlatan, an imposter, a fraud, and the [...] Read more »
What Lies Have You Been Told That Keep Your Creativity Cowering In A Cage?
Katie-Rose grew up in a family where both parents were very encouraging of her curious nature. She was never short of books to read, or crayons to colour with, and received a camera at seven years old to take her own pictures so she didn’t have to borrow her mother’s [...] Read more »