Posts Tagged ‘Creator’s Block’

You’re sitting down in your studio, gathering art supplies and sipping a cup of coffee or delicious tea. You turn on some background noise, lock the door, pick up your pencil and freeze. There’s nothing there, your mind is completely blank and the muse has taken a vacation to Tahiti without leaving you a note. Fretting, you start drawing completely random things on tthe paper, but your heart is not in this and it looks terrible. An hour or so later you finally give up and stumble out of your studio defeated.

Don’t worry so much, you can beat this! As creative people, artists and writers we have all been there. Full of anxiety, knowing we have deadlines, bills to pay and we need to create something, anything. We have all gotten past it, but here are a few tips for you to refer to the next time the ugly Creator’s Block Monster has you in it’s grasp.

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost

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