Tag: review

  • Creating amongst the Chaos – Creative Field Notes

    Creating amongst the Chaos – Creative Field Notes

    creative field notes text with my feet on a wooden bridge

    How have I felt this month?

    This month has been good. I have been creative, and I have been getting quite a few things done and moved forward. This month has also been another month of unbelievable events in the wider world. I want to think there is some plan behind it all, but I can only see chaos. This has affected my creativity, although it hasn’t deterred it. I have channelled the “energy” into my creative practice. My work hasn’t become all political, but I have managed to use the energy positively instead of letting it numb me into inactivity.

    What have I created this week?

    Sculpting Sound

    I finished FAWM. I wrote 14 songs in 28 days to complete February Album Writing Month. These songs aren’t going to win me any Brit awards or Ivor Novello trophies, but they did enable me to have a pretty much daily music creative practice through the month. This will continue and also expand.

    I will be focusing on my Wheel of the Year project.

    Weaving words

    I am opening DayOne, Ulysses, and Scrivener more regularly. I am also reviewing my creative writing practice and getting out and about to write more in my Moleskine.

    Multimedia

    Getting distracted and falling down digital rabbit holes is an issue I face when creating multimedia. There are so many excellent tutorials that I can spend all my time watching them and taking notes. However, we all know that if you want to learn, you need to do. We only learn by doing. So, I will be curtailing my time watching and spending time doing.

    I am exploring how I can use focus modes more during my day. However, the biggest distraction is from my own brain box. Picking up the phone or opening a browser to do something legitimate for my next action can all too easily become a wander down

    25 in 25 highlights and lowlights

    I have noticed that I am not getting out enough. As spring has officially sprung and with the time zone changing at the end of March, I want to make sure I get out more. Part of the reason for this is to help with the distractions mentioned above. I want to spend more time doing creative prep work outside. The more I can prepare in a journal or notebook, the less I will be distracted or in that “what’s next” phase when I sit with the app open.

    In conclusion

    Regular habits and creative practices help me in achieving goals and completing projects. My challenge is to keep this up but not let these rituals and habits become negative must dos. I never want them to become, oh no, not that again. In the past, this has happened, and my plans have cascaded like a house of cards.

    It is time for my Odyssey to become more intentional as I step into March.


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  • Creativity: Helps and Hindrances

    Creativity: Helps and Hindrances

    Creativity: Helps and hindrances text with an image of me in an art studio

    Month end gives me a pause for reflection to review what is helping and hindering my creative journey. My latest vlog looks at the helps and hindrances to a creative life from my own recent experience.


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  • Reviewing Creative Goals

    Reviewing Creative Goals

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    How have we done with our creative goals, habits and routines as the first quarter of the year passes? I confess to what I have achieved and not achieved in Q1 as I review and prepare for Q2. Creative successes and habit failures are in this week’s vlog.


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  • The importance of a January review

    It’s the end of January so time for a review of how things are going, or not going. How are you doing with your intentions and resolutions? I remind myself how important reviews are in the creative process. (Click above or watch below).


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