Do you remember in English class in school when the teacher would have you do a "freewrite" for 10 mintues? They would tell you to just write anything and everything that comes to mind without thinking much or editing or making complete thoughts - just to get the ideas flowing.
Then, what comes out of the free-write is often a really great starting point for some real writing.
That was always my very favorite.
Well I was talking to my friend Heidi (the one that made my wedding dress) and I was expressing my frustration with myself and my creative blocks. When I do get a little time to sit down and do a project for myself - I feel such pressure to make the time worthwhile that I want to make the idea so amazing and perfect that I usually get frustrated that I can't get that far and give up. This leaves me with many unfinished projects laying around.
She asked me if I remember free-writing.
She said, what I need to do is take that concept of free-writing and use it on whatever project I want to start. Just design - uninhibited.
It was like an epiphany! OF COURSE that will help.
That is exactly what I needed to hear. Because I seem to waste a lot of my time trying to think the entire project out before I start it and want something mindblowingly amazing to come from it.
Which can't always happen.
Which is discouraging.
Unless I don't have those expectations anymore.
So I'm going to start - with my at home creations - practicing uninhibited design.
Maybe something mindblowingly awesome will come from it anyway??
And if not?
At least I had fun... which is what life is all about anyway.
