Sit myself down, tap my pen and fall into a lost afternoon…

Lately I’ve been thinking back to the days where I would spend my afternoons on our back verandah, sunning my legs while I scribbled and scratched out words in a diary. Well actually, it wasn’t a diary at all, often it was an exercise book or a spiral lined notepad meant for my university lectures. I wrote dozens of poems back then and was often inspired by the music I was listening to and the films I was watching.

I could spend hours of an afternoon writing and dreaming with no motivation other than pure enjoyment. It’s what children do every day, creating for fun…because they can. As I spoke about recently, my brain often over analyzes my need for creativity and pretty much gets in the way of actually being creative. It gets in the way of that wanting to just do and be.

Often that notion of just doing something creative for fun can be lost. It can be lost in a world of emails, sitting in traffic, phone calls, competing with yourself or others, worry and self doubt. I’m making an effort this week to remind myself to just be, to let all the nonsense just wash over my back, so I can get out there and create something new just for me.

Last week I read a fabulous post about finding creativity in the world around you by the oh so talented Irene Nam which also led me to this great list of ways to find creative cues by inspiring artist Jenny Vorwaller. Friends, I think you should read them both.

p.s. Words To Shoot By for this week on the theme of :abstract

p.p.s. Vicki talks about blogs being real.