Circles of Support: How to Keep your Creativity Flowing
We artistic types tend to go through dry times. You know what I'm talking about—our ideas evaporate on the sun-baked asphalt of life, and we find ourselves groping along our creative path with cracked lips and parched tongues. Here's a tip for keeping your lips moist and your creativity flowing: Join a circle of support—a group of people who interact online by sharing innovative ideas, favorite art projects, creative living experiences, and life-management tips. Take the artistic plunge.
One of my circles of support is bubbling over with posts and creative passion, so come join us. You don't have to be a blogger to visit and leave an encouraging or insightful comment.
My bff, Barbie Knoop, has a new website and blog entitled, Kate Coury's Farmhouse. Her delightful country life is overflowing with ideas for making your life more creative: DIY projects, delicious recipes, inspirational posts and more.
I've sat on that porch with Kate, as we dreamed about our future creative lives.
My writing friend, and book editor, Kay Johnson, will knock your socks off with her array of interesting blog posts, such as "5 Things you Should Know about Creative Minds." Here is a link to her blog, L is for LaNita. She provides an array of resources for business owners and aspiring writers. Check out her website at Zebo Media Group. She designed my book's media kit.
Me and Kay on our Colorado Writers' Retreat
I'm proud as punch of my daughter's reentry into the blogging world with postings of poetry, scrapbooking ideas, jewelry making, mask making, travel photo display projects, and more. Visit her blog at http://elyafiller.wordpress.com.
My online friend, and endless encourager, Diane Polome continues to tempt your creativity with art ideas and inspirational posts in her blog Unfinished Work. Here's a recent post that will spur your greeting card creativity, "Bit by the Paper Bug!"
If you're a writer and aspiring self-publisher, you've got to hang around Christine M. Grote: Random Thoughts from Midlife. Here's a post featuring a "Self-publishing update." She posts a steady flow of "How To" suggestions for getting your idea into a book as well as inspirational thoughts and interesting photo challenges.
Slamdunk will challenge your creative crime-solving skills and lighten your mood with delightful real-life anecdotes in his blog.
Are you a children's or young adult writer? If so, Kelly Hashway is a must. This woman impresses me beyond words. She's bulldozed a publishing path you can follow.
Author L.L. Barkat's blog, Seedlings in Stone, will infuse your creative life with meaning and open your eyes to Barkat's claim that "The life is in the story."
The blessings of interacting with circles of support are endless. As far as brightening your mood and getting your mojo to flow, the odds of everyone being down in the dumps at one time is slim to none. So someone will have his or her creative faucet turned on with a fresh flow of content. You simple place your cup under the crisp, clean water until the brim overflows with encouragement and contentment.
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