I created Curio for a new YouTube channel. I did not expect this tiny animated character with orange glasses to make me excited about creating videos again.
On My Mind Monday
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I started wondering whether creativity really stays inside neat little boxes. Can making something with our hands quietly change the way we think, write, or approach other creative work?
What if the next creative direction is not something completely new, but a combination of ideas you have already been carrying with you?
Sometimes creative work doesn’t need fixing. Sometimes it needs a little distance. I’ve been wondering whether looking somewhere else for a while might be exactly what helps curiosity return.
I have done the groundwork. The notes exist. The outline exists. I know what I want to say, or at least I know enough to begin finding out what I want to say. The project is not vague anymore. It has a shape, a direction, and several pages of evidence that I have already spent time thinking about it. And yet, starting the actual writing still feels difficult. Not impossible. […]
Stability can feel like a relief, especially after change. But when nothing seems wrong, do we stop asking whether what feels comfortable still fits?