Why stop there, are you eating? Are you bathing yourself? Are you regularly performing your ADLs (Activities of Daily Living)? Whether you are a creative or just trying to get through your 9-to-5 life, making sure to sleep regularly, eat when it’s time, and clean yourself and your environment is a good way to stayContinue reading “Are you sleeping?”
Author Archives: SJ Wrytes
Personal: Inspiration
I’m deciding to categorize my blog posts a little differently this year, so that maybe you can learn a little bit more about me instead of just getting “lectured” to about the creative process. I consider myself a fantastic teacher – yes, I’m just that confident – but that can get stale after awhile. SoContinue reading “Personal: Inspiration”
The Importance of Creative Groups
You’re working on a project – could be a piece of visual artistry, prose, or a musical composition. You think it’s fantastic, your best. OR you think something’s wrong with it, your not-so-great. What do you do next? Show your mom? Explain it to your best friend? Ask the barista their opinion? Uh oh! LooksContinue reading “The Importance of Creative Groups”
The Myth of the Perfect Creative Environment
You read it right. The absolute perfect environment and mindset for getting the creative juices flowing and captured in one of the many variety of artistic mediums does not exist. I don’t care what your teacher, best friend, favorite motivational speaker told you. It does not exist. Of course, we all have the ideal placesContinue reading “The Myth of the Perfect Creative Environment”
My Roommate Was A Vampire – Part Two
An excerpt from Part Two: “My Roommate Was An Omen“. A young partier slain on a subway ramp, her clothes and wallet seemingly undisturbed, her neck drenched in blood. A guy and his friend both stabbed outside the door of their apartment, pierced lung and heart, the largest amount of blood loss from the openContinue reading “My Roommate Was A Vampire – Part Two”
My Roommate Was A Vampire – Part One
An excerpt from Part One: “My Roommate Was A Problem“. The café sat in the middle of the financial district, often crowded with suits and hipsters alike, the former there out of convenience and economy, the latter for the atmosphere and the irony. I had arrived first, settling into my favorite spot across from theContinue reading “My Roommate Was A Vampire – Part One”
Imposter Syndrome
I often think about the vicious cycle of being a creative. One moment, you are ahead of the game, you’re better than everyone else at whatever they call “art”, and once you are noticed, the whole industry will change to conform to your likeness. The next moment, you should have never been born, or atContinue reading “Imposter Syndrome”
New tech, who dis?
Sooooo this girl has been MIA as usual, as is to be expected, as is the custom of the consummate procrastinator, that I honestly wasted as many letters as possible to say the same thing, be redundant or repetitive. I’m losing thought. Point is, I am back at it, writing again now that I haveContinue reading “New tech, who dis?”
Regularity
So, like, I published a new episode of “Not SO Beneficial” on the Episode Interactive app, and it only took me over 2 years to do. This was due to a combination of imposter syndrome, a busy schedule, a private but world shattering emotional breakdown and bad habits that finally gave out right when theContinue reading “Regularity”
Procrastination AKA Adult Exhaustion
Looks like I can explore this here: It’s not really procrastination as much as it’s being an adult and getting easily exhausted. YouTube is easy to turn on. Instagram at your fingertips. And are you really ready to think? About anything? Absolutely not! So it’s exhaustion. I procrastinated when I was kid. I didn’t wantContinue reading “Procrastination AKA Adult Exhaustion”
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