Last fall, I started something I called “Creativity Practice,” I made a practice of doing one creative thing a day and posting it on Instagram. Over the course of the practice, I began to ask myself, ‘Why am I making this project?’ The answers were sometimes like this: I’m making this: • because so&so willContinue reading “Art for Art’s Sake”
Category Archives: Creativity
Write What You (Don’t) Know
Those of us who write have heard the phrase, “Write what you know.” But what do I write about once I realize I know nothing? A karate teacher of mine told our class once, “We don’t say we know karate.” She went on to explain what this meant. As I understood it, one can neverContinue reading “Write What You (Don’t) Know”
“Really into God stuff”
During the late winter of my Instagram “Creativity Practice,” there came a day, a tiny little day of reckoning: I was mulling over some creative project or another, thinking as I cleaned up after the kids– I don’t actually remember what I was doing, but I remember that I was walking around between my diningContinue reading ““Really into God stuff””
Creativity Practice
Last Winter I started practicing creativity. I made a challenge for myself to do something creative every day and post the result on Instagram. The only rule about the “something creative” was that it had to be satisfying. Not pretty, “good,” or even intentional, just satisfying. I posted flower arrangements, outfits I dressed in, drawings,Continue reading “Creativity Practice”
Embracing the Shitty First Draft
I didn’t come up with the idea of the Shitty First Draft, but boy do I find it helpful. (I think I might have read it in a book by Anne Lamott, here’s a great post about her writing advice.) Here’s how it works: Option1: I approach a creative project from the perspective of “ThisContinue reading “Embracing the Shitty First Draft”
Michelle Folk Johnson 