Creativity Uplift

G’nug is g’nug people! Don’t get sucked into always needing to do more. ##LifeSkill##LifeSkills##WorkBalance##ImposterSyndrome##ImposterComplex##selfcare##creativehappylife##creativity##creativelife##artistlife##fyp##foryou

Once again, I burned my dinner because I was working on a painting and lost track of time. #StarvingArtist #Artist #ArtistLife #ArtistsLife #Creative #Absentminded #susandirende #creativelife #fyp #foryou

The secret key to showing up every day for your daily creative practice is not finding the will to start, but having the willpower to stop when you have accomplished your daily task. It is the limitation that will set you free. #DailyPractice #ArtPractice #Creativity #Maker #Art #Artist #FYP #Inspiration #fyp #foryou #Transformation #CreativeTransformation #LifeSkill #LifeSkills #DailyArt #Discipl...

So there are 4 slots available in the artist/writer residency in Tuscany this summer— one in each of four different weeks starting June 16, June 23, July 28 and August 4. The September dates haven’t filled up yet so that’s a possibility if you want to come in September. Message me your email so I can send you the details or go to my writer website, susandiRende dot ink, where you can read about it...

If you’re having difficulty showing up for your creative self every day, or as much as you’d like, here’s a tip for my own experience of transformation. #Creativity #Transformation #CreativeTransformation #LifeSkill #LifeSkills #DailyArt #Discipline #SelfDiscipline #ArtisticDiscipline #ShowingUp #ShowingUpForYourArt #CreativeOfTikTok #ArtistsOfTikTok, #WritersOfTikTok ##fyp##foryou##foryoupage

The only problem with letting your unconscious solve a hole in your plot is that it most likely will reveal the solution to you just as you’re falling asleep. If you don’t get it down, it’ll be buried by morning. So I wake myself up enough to dictate some notes and close my eyes. Either I’ll fall asleep now peacefully or I’ll get the next idea and this could rinse and repeat for a while. But in th...

I love pantsing as a writer because it allows me to be as surprised by the unfolding story as I write it as the reader is when they read it. #Writing #Plot #Pantsing #plottingvspantsing #WritingLife #CreativeLife #WritingANovel #fyp #foryou #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #writinganovel #susandirende

Nothing makes me get off social media faster than feeling like I’m being played. The push to make posts that generate interest in a topic only to then force you to read the caption to find out what it is, often burying the information way down on the bottom of caption just to keep you watching longer… It’s a theft of my time. There’s no respect for the value of my attention. It turns me into a mar...

“Aim yourself like an arrow and let go.” This is one of my favorite quotes. It’s by Leonardo da Vinci, the original Renaissance man. He did everything, and he did it with focus, curiosity, and without regard to what other people thought. #Creativity #LeonardoDaVinci #DaVinci #RenaissanceMan #RenaissanceWoman #JackOfAllTrades #artist #ArtistLife #CreativeInspiration #Coaching #ArtistCoaching #Artis...

That feeling in the middle of creating that feels so heavy, when it feels like your great idea is turning out embarrassingly bad, that is the starting point for your best work. ##CreativeJourney##ArtisticProcess##StorytellingStruggles##CreativeStruggle##ArtistsLife##OvercomingArtBlocks##CreativeInspiration##TheArtistsWay##Storytellers##FromFailureToArt

Creativity isn’t an intellectual exercise, but an emotional one, so using the tools of discipline to try to get more work done might be really counterproductive rather than helpful. A clockwork has to be consistent and regular. But creation, invites chance and random variation that, while anathema to a functioning machine is the very heart of cultural growth. Be the petri dish for your ideas and i...

Seeking out novel experiences is an act of pre-creation, important to keeping my work fresh and my outlook broad instead of narrow. #Creativity #NovelExperience #NovelExperiences #DoingNewThings #CreativeNourishment #CreativityHack #CreativeGrowth #fyp #creativelife #creativelifestyle #creativityuplift

If you write plot driven stories, things for your main character have to go from bad to worse. Don’t leave “bad enough“ alone because you feel sorry for them. You are the secret villain behind their misery, never letting their best efforts be enough. Tease with small victories only to torture them with a bigger fall. They’re not innocent puppies where that would be cruelty. They’re your freaking h...

My personal hack for figuring out your purpose or golden life, is to see myself as the doyenne — the most respected woman — field or endeavor of life. Imagine you are the most respected woman in some arena. What would your title be? #Goalsetting #Dreams #KnowWhatYouWant #Success #Succeeding #LifeGoal #LifeGoals #DefineSuccess #DefineSuccessForYourself #DefineYourself #findyourpurpose #doyenne

The perfect gift for a fantasy reader who loves Terry Pratchett, or reads a lot of mythology according to – not me – but the sci-fi and fantasy magazine, Locus. #lastminutegift #givebooksforchristmas #bookgiftideas #fantasybooktokers #BookGift #Booktok #buybooks #FantasyBook #fantasyrea #fantasyreaders #fantasyreadersoftiktok #BestFantasy2023 #readertok

Do my mirror neurons activate when I’m with my dog? #MirrorNeuron #MirrorNeurons #Dogs #DogsMakeMeHappy #DogHappiness #Mood #AnimalReels.

Overcoming negativity that’s in your way usually involves brain pathways that are very robust from a lifetime of use. You can’t just erase those pathways. You have to cooperate. You have to keep the pathway and change the thought that down it. This is one of the fundamental uses of affirmations. Not to ask the universe for a new car, or promotion, but to rewrite the limiting beliefs stand in the w...

What two kinds of people do you divide the world into? #wordgames #twokindsofpeople #TwoTypesOfPeople #ThisOrThatGame

Hoping to hack my way past Art Journal Incompleteness Syndrome by using home made journals made for next to nothing from old books and dollar store notebooks. #Artist #ArtistOfTikTok #ArtistsOfTikTok #ArtJournal #ArtJournalHack #DIY #DIYJournal #artjournaling #diyartjournal #artjournalideas #fyp #foryourpage #creatives #arthacks #hacksandtips #impostorsyndrome

Expensive fancy art journals are just too intimidating for me so I’m making a homemade journal out of a hardback book. I’m hoping it allows me to feel more casual about experimenting. I mean I’ve already ruined the book so I don’t have to aim for a beautiful artifact. I don’t know why it’s easier to try to make something out of a ruin instead of living up to a beautiful hardbound journal with qual...

When you meet a stranger, who had the same reactions and responses to a book that you had, that connection makes it feel like you know them. It’s like their family in a way. There should be a word for that feeling. I came up with bookinship, but maybe there’s a better word. What do you think it should be? #booktok #book #booklover #bookliver #bookliver #bookmeeting #sharingbooks #readersoftiktok #...

Either/or thinking traps, the creative imagination, prevents it from birthing novel ideas and forms. ##Artist##Writer##Creator##Creative##Creativity##artistsoftiktok ##writersoftiktok##CreativesOfTikTok##ArtistLife##WritersLife##CreativeLife##CreativeHappyLife##CreativeLifestyle##Novelty##Inspiration##noveltyinspiration##Exploration##NovelExperience##nonbinarythotprocess

My Art Retreat Process #art #artist #Miniatures #Paintings #TinyArt #TinyPaintings #MarkerArt #SharpieArt #ArtOfTheDay #beinganartist #OriginalArt #FineArt #OriginalArtwork #Arte #DailyArt #ArtDaily #DailyPractice #tuscany #Creativity #artretreat #artistretreat #artistresidency

So mind-blown by this part of the fantastic Locus Magazine review of Knife Witch. “It’s a beach read for all us geeks who grew up with a copy of Bulfinch’s Mythology in one hand and a Terry Pratchett novel in the other, with a History Channel documentary on Blackbeard or the PBS’s Power of Myth playing in the background, for company. In fact, this reader would go as far as to assert that Knife Wit...

And one of the things when I turn 60 as I’ve visited all the places that ever lived in my life to gather the memories in sift through them. My visit to Williamsburg, where I went to college was a real surprise because the turmoil of emotions I put myself through mostly wanting things that I was sure I couldn’t have even before I tried, had evaporated over the years, not leaving the least residue....