Creativity sprints

I was worried I would very quickly run out of things to write about when I first started on #WeblogPoMo2024, but it turns out if I make myself produce something every day, I find the words.

I’m finding there’s something to having a default thing to do with any spare bit of time each day. I have a lot of creative interests: writing, piano, lettering, drawing, creative coding… I like to flit between them to “keep things interesting” but more often than not the mental effort to pick one of them when I have a spare moment causes me to procrastinate and do something like watch YouTube instead.

This month, writing just has to come first. If I stay on the course, I will have published 31 notes. That’s 60% of my rough goal of 50 notes this year, all in the space of one month! I’m thinking this could be the start of a rolling monthly challenge for myself. I could pick an activity to do every day for the month, and make some real progress towards that hobby.

I watched a new tutorial from iPad Lettering with Karin Newport yesterday, and got excited at the thought that June could be a month of doing lettering every day.

Love that I’m only 7 days in to this challenge and I’m already thinking about the next one. Like, calm down 😂. Let’s see if I can complete May first!

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This has been post no. 7 for #WeblogPoMo2024 and it is what I was interested in today.