We tend to create around the same themes because this is our story, but do you always recognize the themes? How many times have you felt like you woke up from a dream and wondered whose life you were in? This has been the plot of many a movie or book. Is it total amnesia, some sinister plot or have we simply lost our way and straggled along for years not being present? It is time to wake up and rewrite the script.
Exercise
We are going to write a story about discovering our muse. Your story can be any genre: science fiction, drama, comedy or even fantasy. Write your story and then illustrate it. It may be figurative, abstract, emotional or whatever your muse gives you. Use it as a springboard to explore a new path or medium. Make a sculpture, stitch a book, write a song, take photographs or dance your story. Or try them all. Here are some prompts to guide you to the next development. • Where do you find inspiration? • Is it a place, thing, activity or something else? • What do your surroundings look like? • Go somewhere—to the park, a museum, a bus—somewhere you will encounter people. Really look at those around you without staring. Look not only with your eyes but with your heart. Sketch a person or write about a person you see. Don’t judge. The person may be anyone you are drawn to, but not someone you know. You will probably have only a few minutes to capture the essence of the character. • What is a place you daydream about? • Is it real or in your imagination? • How do you feel when you are there? • There is an open space ahead of you; what does it look like? • What is the weather like? • Where are you going? • Whom are you going to meet? • The character you met earlier is your muse. What does your muse tell you?
NOT ALWAYS SOLO Share your creativity with other people.
I like to put sweet love notes or positive affirmations inside library books for others to happen upon. Another favorite is to leave a beautiful journal full of drawings in a public environment asking the finder to add to the art and pass it on to others.
Discover Your New Creative Perspective
Sandra Duran Wilson is an artist and an instructor who wants to help bring out the creativity inside all her readers and students. Awakening Your Creative Soul may be the guide you have been seeking and part of the answer you need about tapping your own creativity. The rest of the answer comes from you and the journey you are about to give yourself permission to take.
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