Dahlias are a wonderful and magical plant: if you want the plant to produce more flowers, you harvest the flowers. For every bloom you cut, two more pop up in its place.
Creative ideas work the same way. When we have ideas for projects, artworks, essays, novels, we’re often tempted to hold on to them, to save them for the perfect time. When we do this sort of “idea hoarding,” it puts a stopper on our creative flow.
However, when we pluck that idea from within our head and make it into something real, when we create our art and put it out into the world, no matter how imperfect or unfinished it is, the creative flow continues.
Ideas beget ideas, cut flowers beget more flowers to cut.
Happy harvest season!
Michelle Folk Johnson 