I recently blogged about Being Creative Everyday. In that post I said that I’d take time out everyday to creatively play. Here is some samples of my progress:
My Drawing: Rolling Pin
My Creative Writing – A Sneeze
Creative Writing – Something You Found
Remember what I said about them not being masterpieces? Well…there you go. Point proven. I will post an update next Sunday.
Recently I’ve been thinking about being creative, but not actually doing anything creative. Creativity should be something I do everyday, as it has so many benefits, including:
It lights up my imagination, giving me pleasure and increasing my happiness.
It motivates me.
It is good for my mind, heart and soul. It makes my mind more active, my heart beat faster and enriches my soul.
It helps me deal with my feelings, good and bad. It also helps me to express these feelings.
It makes me a better problem-solver. When I’m feeling creative, I can come up with better solutions to problems.
It allows me to explore ideas.
It enables me to look at events, situations and people in different ways.
Helps me to hope for and imagine better or alternative futures.
It gives me hope, at times when I feel that I need it.
Other people’s creativity inspires me.
The way to be more creative, is to play, as children do inhibited. So when I was at Waterstones at the weekend and saw these books, I just had to pick them up. Here’s my opportunity to play and be creative:
I picked up both of these books along with a pack of felt tip pens. I’m going to draw or write something in these books at least once a day. I’ve already started.
I’ll be posting my progress here by sharing a few scanned images. Don’t expect any drawing I do to be an artistic master piece (for that see my fabulous Illustrator friend Sye); or that any writing I do will be literary genius. Just take it for what it is – me playing. I’m aiming to post a progress update once a week.
