Creativity From Limits

 Creativity and good ideas don't keep office hours and that being said our supposed circadian rhythms do, and brutally so.   I often think that the life of a true creative is torturous just on a sleep level, because you may be inspired at times when its socially unacceptable, like be a metal sculptor and feeling the need to grind and weld but living in a space with noise regulations. Myself, being a digital creative, it comes down to screen time, domestic and family interactions, and limits of computer and camera hardware. I have a canon EOS M10 mirror-less camera that I was using with a 3D printed tilt-shift camera adapter and unfortunately the adaptor cracked and died.  I'm hoping to revisit the tilt shift idea with an old EF mount I have, and a tougher 3D printed cylinder to accommodate the 50mm F1.4 Canon FD lens I have butchered for this project.  And that's just for some of my photographic and video aspirations.  My morning creativity starts as soon a...

We creatives beat ourselves up a lot. Its really a bad thing. It leads to aggravated imposter syndrome and often that is quite crippling on its own. It necessitates a certain amount of not-caring-at-all-and-just-being-yourself.  I can say that after 35 years of a very peculiar creative journey, (in my opinion) its still not something I do with reckless abandon in all my creative endeavours. I regularly engage in a few creative disciplines beside writing. I used cartoon every day (in fact that was my art beginning - writing and drawing cartoons), but also photography and video and from the early 90s I transitioned to being an entirely digital artist.  I have some coordination challenges that were as result of a birth condition, and with that came several years of occupational therapy, which, marginally improved my hand-eye coordination. But its still not great. So gradually having technology do for me what I wasn't able to do with my hands, has been a gigantic enabler. Now I'm ...

 Greetings, and welcome to today, day 1 for me back at work in 2025.  It's also a start of a new season of just trying to output as much creativity in all the forms I can as possible. Less consuming and more producing is my plan this year. Pictured belove is my computer "Cave". I think every creative should have such a spot. So with that in mind, from Monday to Friday, I get up at 5am and work on my writing until 6:30am. Currently I'm working on a novel and also a graphic novel and screenplay of the same story. I guess this is my finding a creative rhythm in all the different creative things I do.  When I'm seated here at 5am its just me associating the space with writing productively, and it works I find. I find my flow state more easily knowing this is my writing spot. Now I just need to find other time slots where I can link my music and arty creativity to. I had a 22 inch drawing pen and tablet that I bought in 2021 give up the ghost suddenly near the end of l...