Merry Christmas!
Here in Australia, it is the 23rd of December, which means that this is the last of the Advent Calendar email series of daily creative prompts (although not my last email - scroll down below to see what I’ve got coming up next year).
Thank you so much for subscribing. I have loved putting these emails together.
Some of you have been good enough to send through feedback. Thank you for that – it is so helpful in fine tuning these emails and also incredibly encouraging.
In fact, I am so encouraged and inspired by the feedback I have received that I am going to send out more emails next year. You might have noticed that I have changed the name of this newsletter to Methods and Madness: Notes on creativity. See below for details.
But first: your daily creative prompt.
Review the other prompts you have received so far, and ask yourself this:
During this busy time of year, did you have time to respond to all of them and make stuff, or were some or all of them treated as thought-exercises that could only be responded to inside your head?
There is nothing wrong with not creating output, by the way, if you are busy, but I am interested in how you felt about that: Frustrated? Resigned? Depressed? Playful?
And what does this tell you about how you are feeling about your own efforts to be creative?
As a mentor I am more concerned with how people feel about their efforts to be creative than their creative output. Feeling positive about your creative identity and potential is essential for embedding resilience in your creative process (this is not the same as egotism, by the way).
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit." ~ Ansel Adams
What I am doing next year: Methods and Madness: Notes on creativity
Following on from the success of the Advent Calendar, I have decided to keep on sending out emails next year and am offering two types of subscription:
Free subscription:
At the end of each month, you will receive a bulletin containing inspirations, ideas, and resources to help you to connect to and develop confidence in your creativity. And every now and again I’ll send a few extra emails with some extra prompts, just for those who want to extend themselves.
If you are already receiving these email prompts, then you do not have to do anything. You will start getting monthly emails from the end of January 2022.
Paid subscription:
$5 / month or $50 / whole year.
As well as the monthly newsletter, you will receive fortnightly emails containing creative prompts. In these emails, I will be sharing content that is original, thought provoking, creative, reflective, and playful. Images, prompts, questions, quotations, exercises for your mind and imagination will tease and probe the creative side of your personality.
If you would like to receive these, then please subscribe now. The first prompt will arrive in your inbox on the 14 January 2022 and then every fortnight thereafter.
I hope that you will continue with me on this Substack project. I have all sorts of exciting ideas that I want to share with you.
And have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Meredith
If you like what I do, maybe put a little something in my Christmas stocking by leaving me a tip at Ko-Fi.