Oct

9

using our good sense

October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

[-quick tip, practice-] A Quick Creative Practice ~simple habits can have profound impacts~ “The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us…..” Marcel Proust, French writer. Whether you’re on a high energy creative roll or in a loggy slump, paying attention to your senses always makes good [...]

Jun

27

a pcq-qcp: bedside essentials

June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

[-quick tip, practice-] A Quick Creative Practice ~simple habits can have profound impacts~ Keep a tablet and a pen or pencil on your bedside table at all times! DREAMS If you wake with a dream still in reach, jot it down immediately. If you want to fall back to sleep, don’t worry about transcribing the [...]

Mar

21

a PCQ-QCP – Inspiration Log

March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

[-quick tip-] A Quick Creative Practice ~simple habits can have profound impacts~ Inspiration Log Keep a journal or notebook log for your projects. Always write down a sentence or phrase about what inspired you to begin. Once you get in the middle of the work, it’s easy to go off on a tangent or get [...]

Mar

20

a PCQ-QCP – keep it simple

March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

[-practices, tips-] A Quick Creative Practice ~simple practices can have profound impacts~ Keep It Simple By definition, the creative mind is often overfull. Creativity gathers, accummulates, makes connections, and of course, generates. All of this can mean that when we try to produce something from all that raw material in us, it’s overwhelming and we [...]

Mar

16

a PCQ-QCP: Learn a New Skill

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-practices, tips-] a Quick Creative Practice ~simple practices have profound impacts~ Need Inspiration? Learn something new Choose either a fairly simple skill – for example, how to do stencilling or beginning knitting – or – choose a skill that will take time and effort and one that you have, therefore, been putting off your whole [...]

Mar

16

a PCQ-QCP: Schedule Creative Time

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-practices, tip-] a Quick Creative Practice ~simple practices have profound impacts~ Schedule Creative Time Of course you know this, but do you do it? If you don’t schedule time for being creative, no one else will. Whether you are overly busy or have lots of *free* time, your day will fill up with anything but [...]

Mar

16

a PCQ-QCP: write it down

March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-quick creative practice, tip-] a Quick Creative Practice ~simple practices have profound impacts~ Write Down All Your Ideas Writing it down does several important things: • keeps you from forgetting fleeting ideas, no matter how inspired, are easily forgotten • gets it out of your head so you can evaluate it • gives it validity [...]