Dear Creative Soul,     When you are constantly thinking about a creative project, you aren’t creating. You are distracting yourself from creating with your thoughts.    In a way, overthinking poisons your creativity like a snake bite does a human body.   Your brain loves to mull over things, your creativity just wants...

Dear Creative Soul,Do you know what keeps you from creating what calls out to you?Is it a lack of talent?No, you have the ability to create whatever you dream up. Is it lack of training?No, you can find all the training you need online. Is it lack of confidence?Ha! We are getting closer!Is it fear?Of course it is.Making...

Dear Creative Soul,When you were a baby, your mind was wide open.As you grew up, your mind became, for the lack of a better word, narrower. You developed beliefs, notions about who you are and what you can and absolutely cannot do.Your mind has stored a lot of negative ideas about yourself. One of the areas in your life...

Dear Creative Soul,Sometimes you see someone's amazing artwork and go completely still inside. In that instant you know that you will never be as good an artist as that person.Sometimes you read someone else’s work, and you feel you will never be able to write as well as them.I’ve felt this countless times, and in the...

Dear Creative Soul, Did you know that creativity flows best in silence?I don't mean silence around you, in fact, I love to put on some music when I create.I mean silence within. The absolute silence of your inner judge, the absence of fear, that is what makes the best creativity time possible.And the good news is,...

Dear Creative Soul,I was playing together some graphics for my blog when I wondered: when is the last time I've actually played like this?When was the last time I'd just spent an hour or so making things that made me smile? The sad thing is that I couldn't really tell. I couldn't remember what the last time I held my...

Dear Creative Soul,This is a letter for when you are hard on yourself when it comes to your creativity. For when you doubt yourself and your progress. For when you think that what you've made isn't up to par and you need to do more. For when you are angry at yourself because you think that you haven't spent enough time...

Dear Creative Soul,I have had several health issues over the years, and I have let them stop me from creating.I have had days where I felt so weighed down by pain that the only thing I did was stare at my computer screen all day, watching stuff.I have also had days where I felt reasonably well, but didn’t create...

 make waves - To do something innovative that draws a large amount of attention and makes a widespread impact on its society, industry, etc., often causing controversy in the process.Just relax. Don't make waves. If you make waves too much around here, you won't last long. (source: thefreedictionary.com)  Dear Creative...

Dear Creative Soul,I’m going to give you some advice in the next line that may sound like a contradiction.Sometimes, the best way to get yourself to create is doing nothing at all.It's the best gift you can give yourself when you feel uninspired. It is, in fact, magical.When you do absolutely nothing, you open your mind...

Dear Creative Soul,One of the things that keep creatives from sharing their work is the incessant blabbering of an inner judge with an ego the size of the sun who gets to tell us how our work sucks.We have created that judge. Every single criticism we've received as a child and as an adult is like a new building block...

Dear Creative Soul,I have failed on so many creative projects that just listing it will be exhaustive. I'm not going to do that because listing my failures doesn’t make me very happy.If I do, I'm only becoming someone focused on failing and not on beating that time and time again by starting over. Don't focus on...

Dear Creative Soul,A while ago, someone asked me, “how do you get past your fears of writing something?” I answered, without thinking: just do it.I realised how much I have changed, just by that answer. I used to be such a worrier instead of a doer. I used to worry about rejection and about not being good enough... If...

Dear Creative Soul,It’s so easy to get stuck in headgames about creativity. It’s so easy to stop making things because [insert valid sounding reason].No matter how valid the reason sounds, it’s basically a misconception about your creativity. Facing all these misconceptions is so hard, but vital for your creative...

Dear Creative Soul,Living a creative life is like filling pages in a huge scrapbook of your life.This scrapbook awaits your colourful self. Some pages may be hard for you to look at, filled with bad memories. You can choose to still bookmark those pages, or you can tear the bookmark out, choosing to no longer let your...