What does your creative practice need from you?
How might this writing course help you feed and nurture your creative practice?
What might you and your creative practice get from doing this course?
Note: You can write about any or all of these questions, or something vaguely in this area. It's your writing, your choice.
Write about what is joyful and easy in your creative practice.
List lots of things and explore them a little before you go on to what you find challenging or difficult.
Write about why those things are be joyful or difficult for you at this time in your life.
What makes you the unique creative person that you are today?
What makes you stand out or have a different perspective?
Do you share these uniquenesses with the world or are they private?
Why is that?
Are you in control of your creative work?
What does control mean to you and what might make you feel differently about being under or out of control with your creative work.
Often we get stuck overthinking and not letting go of something that is bothering us.
Write about something that is bothering you now about your creative practice or has been an issue before. This might be about your making work, dealing with other people, self-esteem and managing rejection.
Explore the thoughts, let them flow and have a break.
Read back and reflect back on what you have written.
Can you see any patterns or places you can make a change?
If you could stop doing one thing in your creative practice without financial or other consequences, what would that be?
What would you start, if there was no barrier to doing so?
What are those barriers and can you move them at all?
Write about the times that you have been caring and nurturing to your creative self.
What are you searching for?
Are you looking for an answer or magic ingredient for your creative practice soup?
What makes you sure that the answer or ingredient exists?
Imagine 20 years from now. Write about your creative work for the last 20 years. What have you been doing, how has that work left you feeling, 20 years on.
Where do you go to for inspiration and ideas? Is this a real, physical place or do you have a mental space that allows you to open up.
If you don’t have one, what might be a good place for you and why.
Write about a successful artist / creative. This might be a real person you admire, it might be an imaginary type of person or it might be yourself.
What have you discovered about yourself through reflective writing? What has changed? Where will you go with your reflective writing practice? Write about your intentions.