My creativity time – it boils down to a few minutes every couple of days.
When the daily chores of life are done; dishes washed (well – not always), messages answered, logistics for the next day planned out, girls picked up or dropped off, finished helping the girls with homework and fires of the day put out – it is time to put my self out. Teeth brushed, PJs on and time for bed. This is when the magic starts.
A small glass of scotch, a pen and my notebook. Old fashioned eh !. I can think faster that I can type (or my typing skills are too slow for my thoughts). Actually, i don’t want to use electronic devices in bed – the blue light, the distraction with checking out a movie on netflix or utube, checking social media and so on. So – no electronics in bed. Pen and paper for me.
Sip a bit of scotch…
And a bit more…
And a bit more…
The busy-ness of the day seeps away…
Busyness: the state or condition of having a great deal to do.
“it’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of life”
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/busyness
The little thoughts and ideas that have percolated in my head all day slowly start to form.
Pen writing all this stuff down as fast as the neurons in my head can put the thoughts together.
My notes – scrawled all over the page. My handwriting is pretty horrible at the best of time, and more so when writing fast. Spelling, neatness, punctuation and proper grammar all fall by the wayside. And – that is good. I don’t go back to make corrections – just keep going, writing it all down.
The next day when I open the notebook, it is all there. It looks like chicken scrawl, and takes a bit of time to decipher what was written.
That is all part of the fun – sort of. I can’t ask anyone else to decipher what was written. It is my hand writing, my scrawl and my thoughts.
When it is time to put the scrawl to blog, I try to respect the authors ideas – and not edit or censor those ideas. It is me anyway – In a more relaxed and creative state.
And – thus it starts.
Nothing Brilliant, Nothing Earth shattering.
Random thoughts – maybe connected.
It is the creative side in me sneaking out.
What is your Trick to release your Creative thoughts ?
