I've been reading
52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity. It's a cool book with ideas about how to express your creativity. The author, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, thinks that creativity begets creativity. That energy for one project will give you energy for other projects.
I've been thinking about this because we've been deep into the creative process here at
BeadStyle. Each of us has designed about 30 earrings, and by the end of the week, we'll have designed 30 more. We've been spending our days designing, photographing, constructing, and writing about earrings. And reading and editing each other's work, too. So I'm thinking about creativity, its demands and rewards, both theoretically and practically.
At what point does creative energy run out? Do you tend to have more energy for other projects when you're feeling productive and creative? I do equate those two things, by the way; they're inseparable. I've been finding that developing creativity is a ton of work. But it's work that's worth undertaking. What about you — do you find creativity challenging? Burdensome? Liberating?
Wishing you a creative day, in whatever that means to you.