The 30-Day Creativity Challenge has officially kicked off. The best part of a quick re-boot is the fresh surge of possibilities. There’s a creative community all doing the thing, so you’re not doing it alone. That kind of support makes it more fulfilling and entertaining. Make it as private or as public as you like.
The downside is that if you’re already tired, burned out, overwhelmed or exhausted—it’s a good probability you’re already entrenched in a rut and cannot even fathom where you’ll get the energy to do a single creative exercise, much less a month of exercises. It just sounds like more work! Right? I set the challenges and exercises up for 30 days to offer a little something to nearly everyone. Sure, those who do more will get more out of it. But those who do even a little will still get a little boost of creative energy from the engagement. Even two challenges or prompts a month can move stuck energy in your creative muscles and get you moving again. The important part, for me anyway, is that as a creator working in a creative field every day, I need to keep limber and unburdened where creativity is concerned. Heavy creative output can be draining. It can even be emotionally dehydrating if it’s not properly replenished, and the fastest way to replenish the creative well is… play. Play and curiosity will stoke the creative fire faster than any other method. The fastest way out of a rut, the surest beeline to creative regeneration… is opening to more inspiration by inviting it into your daily experience. Even if it’s just a little at a time. Just one creativity prompt. Just one little exercise. Then, before you know it, you’re able to breathe a little. When you can breathe, the stagnation and overwhelm shifts its weight on your shoulders, and you can open to a little more inspiration and so on and so forth. In the end, the application of challenges or prompts reconfigured to your particular discipline or practice on a regular, sustainable basis means you’re busting that blockage wide open and letting the creative whoosh right in. Adding a practice of play and curiosity to your routine, even in small doses, makes a generous difference in your health, wellbeing, and creative output. How does a photography prompt apply to a theatre major? How could a painting prompt apply to a writer? Would a technology prompt work on a musical creative? Etc.
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AuthorAthena lives and writes in the Siuslaw Forest, Oregon. Archives
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