A two-week break left me wondering whether stepping away restores more than energy. Maybe it also gives attention, curiosity, and creative perspective room to return.
On My Mind Monday
10 posts
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?
I like change. Most of the time. I enjoy seeing what has changed, clicking around, and figuring out how something works now. A new interface usually makes me curious rather than annoyed. The recent changes to ChatGPT threw me off anyway. I noticed it when we were working on a video script and tried to open it in Canvas. It didn’t work. We tried again. Still nothing. Eventually, we continued […]