Yesterday I wrote what I think was a very useful thing that was quite heavy on the eyeballs. In it, I talked about how your nervous system patterns can play havoc with your creative process, and I ended with a list of things to try when you find yourself spinning in an unhelpful place.
I didn’t want the important bits — the ones you can actually apply — to get lost in the mix, so I’ve made an illustrated version for you here, with a downloadable poster at the end if you need a little creative un-stucking.
Before we dive in, I wanted to tell you that you are witnessing me playing and figuring things out in real time. I love to draw, birds especially, and if you aren’t familiar, this is my usual style:
Fine ink pen and watercolour. I tried illustrating my newsletters this way, but my writing is faster than my drawing, and I eventually had to call my children back from the meadow where they were learning to forage and mend their own clothes outgrown in my absence while I illustrated everything. Which is to say, it was taking me quite a long time.
So I’ve taken it upon myself to learn to draw in ways that are looser, freer, and more playful for you here — a work in progress that involves much tinkering, a little bit of swearing, a good amount of my Concentrating Face, plenty of tea, and a generous dollop of giggle-snorting. A process that I hope you allow yourself also should you ever find yourself in similar circumstances.
So while we stumble and rumble and frolic along together, may I present you with Ways To Get Yourself Unstuck, in the hope that you’ll find it exceedingly and outrageously helpful. Or failing that, just a tiny bit good.
Ways To Get Unstuck
Want to download the poster? It’s all yours! 👇🏻
