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10. A Happy, Healthy Creativity
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In this episode, Cecily and Sarah embark on a fun and strange exploration of what it takes to cultivate a healthy relationship to creativity. We discuss:
- The two main ingredients for a healthy relationship to creativity.
- The hard work of letting yourself be the artist you already are.
- The term “emerging writer” and why it’s cringe.
- The skull as a symbolic motivator for creative practice.
- The importance of building a creative home for yourself.
- The High Priestess, photosynthesis, iteration, and in-sourcing versus outsourcing.
Creative prompts offered in this episode:
- Take time to write about: a) the “benchmarks” that feel important to you as a creator, and what they signify for you; b) the definitions you’d like to use for yourself and your creative work (but might feel reluctant to embrace); c) the definitions you feel people mis-perceive about you, and what you see (and want to see) in yourself.
- If you’re feeling far away from your creativity and saddled with doubts about what you’re doing, whether you’re good enough, etc. — write down all the crappy things you’re thinking and feeling, as if you’re loading up the dumpster to take it to the landfill. Read what you’ve written (with love and non-judgment), tear up the page and throw it away, then sit down and create freely for at least two minutes.
- Imagine your creative life on an extremely long timeline that reaches back 3 billion years, and reaches forward another billion. Plot some interesting points in your creative development along the timeline. Draw time in whatever fashion you choose, and have fun with it.
In this episode we reference:
- Literary Witches Oracle Deck by Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katie Horan
- Taro as Colour by Ithell Colquhoun from Fulgur Press
- The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten
- The Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot
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Questions? Comments? Email us at fulltimeweirdos@gmail.com.
Sound production and editing by Sarah Teresa Cook.
Full-Time Weirdos logo by artist and illustrator Ami Plasse.
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