By Valery Satterwhite
Photo courtesy SnaPsi Сталкер
Blocked! Words are not spilling onto the page; color choices elude you; you can’t embody the character you’ve been chosen to portray. Simply put, you’re stuck! It’s not the first time you’ve been stuck and certainly not the last if you’re a creative being. In your stuck-ness you beat yourself up, and often others, in your frustration and anxiety over your creative blocks. You worry that you may not have another creative thought, an inspired moment, ever again! Your life will be over! Argh!! And you resist your stuckness only to give your power over to it allowing the struggle to grow large blocking your vision, your expression, your talent, your gift to the world. Double ArrrggghhhH!!!
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by Valery Satterwhite
Photo courtesy Trevor Blake
The most damaging restrictions on a creative person’s freedom are self-imposed. What may have started out as a new idea, a new methodology, becomes routine, a habit, after awhile. Habits are the comfort zone. Once snuggled into a comfort zone there is a tendency to stay. However, this is not what a creator is here to do. Staying in a comfort zone habitually creating the same kind of thing over and over again does not feed the artist’s soul. Comfort zones are safe. Comfort zones bore creative people literally to tears. Stagnation goes flies in the face of an artist’s passionate desire to expand and express their full creative potential.
Habits are not limited to craft. The greatest crippler of the creative spirit is habitual thinking. Habitual thinking turns the innovator into the academician; passion into melancholy; fulfillment into despair.
“A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for.” – Anon
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– “I Never Finish Creative Projects, So Why Start?”
by Dan Goodwin
All of us who are creative know what it’s like to experience creative blocks.
That feeling when however much you long to unleash your creativity, it seems about as easy as juggling hot custard.
Whatever we seem to do, we can’t get past a certain point, we’re literally blocked, can’t see a way through and quickly get discouraged and frustrated.
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