One of my favourite creative activities is writing. I love stories. I love words. I love imagination. I love when I hear a story and it teaches me and touches my heart in some profound way. After all, isn’t life one big story full of a collection of different ones?
I think the first step to creating is giving yourself permission to be free. We live in a society that continually labels experiences into boxes. We truly live in a world that comes with old belief systems that encourage people to live in a grey world we have to all survive in. It’s sometimes hard for us to accept the new colours we create because they may be way too different from the old molds in front of us.
So I start off with an intention, like staying to the universe, “hey, I’m ready to write.” Then I just write whatever I can for about five to ten minutes. I think words are energy so once I get to a place where I feel like I have what I need to clear out of my head in that time I start brainstorming ideas about whatever comes. I have a pretty open mind at this point, so I just go with what comes and I this usually produces at least two projects that I will bounce between. I even have a blank document for cool words or ideas opened for anything else that I feel doesn’t fit into the other pieces.
I really believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder as someone once said, but beauty can mean so many so many different people. So I try to look for what I find beautiful in these thoughts that I write and I try to make sense of how they might fit together. Then I continue on.
If I hit a wall, I try to take a breath or listen to music that I enjoy. Inspiration can come from anywhere and even at night right before bed I can get some really neat ideas. I think our job is to be more aware of all that can inspire us and then make a point in our mind because we are all creators by nature and life is one big creative journey.
By: DeAnna Kweens, inspiring author and MRU student
I think the first step to creating is giving yourself permission to be free. We live in a society that continually labels experiences into boxes. We truly live in a world that comes with old belief systems that encourage people to live in a grey world we have to all survive in. It’s sometimes hard for us to accept the new colours we create because they may be way too different from the old molds in front of us.
So I start off with an intention, like staying to the universe, “hey, I’m ready to write.” Then I just write whatever I can for about five to ten minutes. I think words are energy so once I get to a place where I feel like I have what I need to clear out of my head in that time I start brainstorming ideas about whatever comes. I have a pretty open mind at this point, so I just go with what comes and I this usually produces at least two projects that I will bounce between. I even have a blank document for cool words or ideas opened for anything else that I feel doesn’t fit into the other pieces.
I really believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder as someone once said, but beauty can mean so many so many different people. So I try to look for what I find beautiful in these thoughts that I write and I try to make sense of how they might fit together. Then I continue on.
If I hit a wall, I try to take a breath or listen to music that I enjoy. Inspiration can come from anywhere and even at night right before bed I can get some really neat ideas. I think our job is to be more aware of all that can inspire us and then make a point in our mind because we are all creators by nature and life is one big creative journey.
By: DeAnna Kweens, inspiring author and MRU student