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This is my blog archive. My new writing lives on Substack.
When you need to shut off the world
Have you tried learning a creative craft and gotten overwhelmed by all of the advice out there? Felt confused by the contradictions and whether you should follow tip X or Y? Been unable to make your creative choices or get anywhere because there are just too many different paths and you don't know which to choose?
Yeah, me too.
I was fed up with advice. I needed space.
But how do find the space to make choices that are entirely our own? I've found a way I'd like to share with you.
Start before you are ready
January was my beginning. I faced the fear of starting my blog, to start sharing my creativity with the world. It's been a month of searching for my voice, trying to find myself in all of this. Asking what the hell my Fear Year is.
But when January ends, my inner voice has spoken up and I know that it was worth starting somewhere, even if it was scary. I'll figure it out.
The terrifying journey to finding your creative voice
When learning a new creative craft, or finding a new direction, we search for our creative voice. We wonder who we are in our creativity, if we have a voice at all. It's a journey filled with struggles, copying and thoughts of giving up. But those of us who have walked it once know one thing: it's worth it.
The battle of the distracted mind
"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
- Bilbo Baggins
Do you recognize that feeling?
Your mind not being able too keep up? Your head a clutter at the end of the day?
How do we create while we're stretched? Where do we find the energy and time for creativity in a world of scrolling and scanning?
Keep calm and break the rules
We start out this life infinitely curious, with no regards for should or shouldn’t. We are unruly, wild, overly dramatic and poop all over the place. We point and laugh at people, scream when we’re mad, asks why until we get our parents annoyed.
We are creative. Creating naturally, ideas never ending. We question everything.
What to do with your newbie mistakes
Are you a creative newbie at something? If you are, let me tell you this: you will make mistakes. A lot of them. Oh the mistakes you'll do.
You'll do cringe-worthy mistakes. You'll feel shame. You'll probably want to hide a little.
But your mistakes is not what's important - it's what you do with them. What you learn from them.
Why fear is probably my best new year's resolution ever
During the fall of 2015, an idea slowly started to form in my mind. When summer ended I came to the conclusion that I longed for creating. It wasn't something I'd been aware of, but when it hit me it made so much sense. How I like working with projects, and actually loved writing my thesis at university. Why I keep coming back to writing. I want to create.