• You (and me) are the barrier to creativity

    I have discovered that the biggest barrier to creativity is myself. It might well be the same for you as well. In this week’s vlog I look at three ways to overcome the barriers we create for ourselves.

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  • Choose your creative life

    What is your ideal creative life? So often reality and everyday living stop us from being creative. However, we can choose to fit in art, music and writing. In this week’s vlog, I look at the ideal vs reality of being creative.

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  • What’s the point of creating

    Thus when Darren looked at what he hath created he thought, what’s the point and was distinctly underwhelmed. This week’s vlog is a look at how to keep going on a creative project that doesn’t sparkle. Let’s continue to create.

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  • Making Creativity Easy

    There is a way to make creativity easier, to make the creative process easy.. er…ish. Give your music, art, video, images, writing, a helping hand with this one simple tip. I’m making creativity easy in this week’s vlog, let’s create.

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  • When creative plans don’t work

    Once upon a time, I had a creative plan, to create new music while finishing an old music project. That fairy tale came to an unhappy end. In this week’s vlog, I take a look at lessons learnt from a failed creative plan

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  • A Creative Rule of Life

    Despite an inner craving to avoid rules and regulations, I have been contemplating how to bring a little order to my creative life. In this week’s vlog I wonder if a creative rule of life might be the answer.

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  • Proto music

    I have moments of lucidity. These moments concern all sorts of things. I once had one such moment concerning this blog. In it, I thought of writing posts that related to the day. Saturday could be about stationery, Sunday spirituality and so on. Monday was to be about music.

    Lucidity doesn’t last for long. Plans for this blog don’t tend to last long either. However, I find myself here on a Monday about to talk about music. In particular, some music that I have written and have recorded.

    This afternoon I have been mixing and putting some final touches to three new pieces. They will be part of an EP that I’ll soon be sharing. All three tracks are inspired and influenced by three artists who I loved as a young teen… and still enjoy listening to today. John Foxx, Thomas Dolby and Gary Numan are the inspiration. Originally I had planned to record a collection of ten or more tracks. However, that moment of lucidity disappeared as well.

    The EP will be called Protomatic Renaissance and all being well will be on all the major streaming platforms. I’ll let you have a sneak peek, or listen, in the next few days but didn’t want to miss the opportunity of actually sharing something on Music Monday.

    As long as my lucid moments continue I’ll be sharing what I am creating here with a little more regularity than I have been. But that’s the problem with lucidity, it comes and goes… just like the creative muse.


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  • Hello, my name is Darren

    Welcome to my website. I am Darren, the creative minimalist. I have archived the previous iteration of this site.


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