Creativity Uplift

Travel can inject energy into writing, especially Worldbuilding. #dostoyevski #worldbuilding #worldbuildingtok #travel #writinglife #expandingconsciousness #writinglifestyle #writersoftiktok #writingtips #authortok #authortokfyp #booktok #books #authorsoftiktok #author #authorslife #authorphilosophy #writertok #writertoker #writing #showingup #creative #creativity #myphilosophy #foryoupage

In the quiet of the Italian countryside, birdsong plays in the background all day long. I started thinking about all the fantasies I’ve read where travelers were suddenly alerted to the presence of danger because the birdsong ceased. How I thought, would people really noticed that? Until I came here I wasn’t sure but now I think the sudden quiet would strike you in a city girl like me that somethi...

Travel is a great teacher on how to face and move past anxieties. The hope and expectation not to mention the expense of travel means that you’re committed to going, you’re drawn forward, almost inexorably. And so while much that is novel is also anxiety-producing, each step forward brings you new experiences not just of the outer world, but of your inner landscape as the anxieties drop away one b...

Who I am shows up in the stories I write so, even though I don’t try to present a philosophy of the world, as I’m telling the story, my philosophy comes through. So, if you like the message of my reels, you might really enjoy the way I put together stories and bring them to meaningful conclusion. #authortok #authortokfyp #booktok #books #authorsoftiktok #author #authorslife #authorphilosophy #writ...

The essence of creativity is the desire to play with the boundaries, the edges, the places where, what is supposedly true or good meets the opposite ideas of falsehood and wrongness. It is not so much aiming to transgress as challenging the definition of transgression because sometimes what is demonized are outmoded blocks to society’s whole-hearted life and growth. Not that society will thank art...

When you write a story, you’re writing a program in some form or other to overwrite the current reality. #fyp #reading #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #DailyInspiration \#powerofwords #realityshapers #collectivestories #sharednarratives #transformation #writersunite #perceptionisreality #mindovermatter #fictionisreality #storytellingmagic #perceivedreality #scifiinspired #wordsmiths #redefiningreali...

Creativity only cares about being creative. If you’re like me and lose the joy of creating when you focus on strategic accomplishments in some competitive pinnacle of success—acclaim or riches or admiration— then maybe you are more gardener than architect. It took me most of my life to realize that my work thrives in a field of wildflower creativity, following my impulses to plant seemingly random...

Everybody knows gaslighting is bad, but what if you’re gaslighting yourself? #gaslighting #gaslighter #impostorcomplex #creativefreedom #creativeself #Creator #Creative #Creativity #Inspiration #artistsoftiktok #writersoftiktok #CreativesOfTikTok #ArtistLife #WritersLife #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #CreativeLifestyle #ArtisticInspiration #WritingInspiration #CreativeInspiration #ImposterSyndr...

What does it mean when someone tells you to take baby steps? #advice #lifecoach #lifecoaching #lifecoachtips #fyp #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #DailyInspiration #dailywisdom #artistcoach #artistcoaching #self #growth #growthmindset #personalgrowth #lifejourney #babysteps #practice #artistlife #lifejourney #fallingisnotfailing #AdviceForArtists #AdviceForCreatives

I came up with the phrase “claw machine of life” when I was trying to explain to somebody about being an artist, and putting my work out in the world. My friend laughed and kind of got it, the frustration with the lack of total control, but also the enticement of the prize is waiting. If you could just have a little bit of luck, and so I thought I would share it. #fyp #philosophy #philosophytiktok...

“For life really to be fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #taleb #nassimtaleb #fooledbyrandomness #philosophy #philosophytiktok #philisophytok #wisdom #wordstoliveby #fyp

How do I come up with story ideas? Usually I think of phase and go: that’s a title for something. Good titles are invocations, tickets for your imagination to take a ride. The rest is “pantsing.” #Writing #WritingIdeas #StoryIdeas #HowIWrite #WritingProcess #MyWritingProcess #pantser #MyProcess #Writinglife #creativeprocess #Imagination #FYP #WritingCoach #womenwriters #WomanWriter, #WomenWritersO...

Anyone can join the Albert Camus happy Sisyphus society. All you have to do is find your happiness in the toiling along the path and recognize that the life-altering joys you imagine will be yours on attaining your goal is a mirage. ##Sisyphus##Camus##AlbertCamus##Existential##ExistentialIsm##Existentialist##ArtistPath##ArtistWay##freedom##Philosophy##PhilosophyOfArt##PhilosophyTiktok##ArtistPhilo...

Practice makes permanent. Even if you practice it perfectly, chances are you’ll evolve to a point where instead of following rules you want to play with them, and then your practiced skill becomes a roadblock to developing beyond it. A way around the limitations of your practice skill is to purposefully break the rules that lead you to develop in the first place. Practice innovating. Make that the...

Judgments we make about ourselves at 4 can have lifelong impact. ##Artist##Writer##Creator##Creative##Creativity##artistsoftiktok ##writersoftiktok##CreativesOfTikTok##ArtistLife##WritersLife##CreativeLife##CreativeHappyLife##creativeimagination##CreativeLifestyle##WomenOver60##WomenCreatives##WomenArtists##WomenWritersOftiktok##OriginStory##artistoriginstories##artistoriginals##childhoodmemories#...

Studying value in painting taught me something about my writing. There had to be darkness as well as light in the characters in the story. Otherwise, no matter how pretty the colors, no matter how careful the composition, the overall effect would be flat. #fyp #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #multitalented #dailywisdom #artistsoftiktok #writersoftiktok #CreativesOfTikTok #ArtistLife #WritersLife #Cr...

One of the biggest barriers to a fully-embraced creative life is the doubt about the value of the creative process voiced in devastating terms by our own inner voice. Thinking some outer success will silence that voice is a trap. Only the doing itself can provide an antidote, rendering doubts and self criticism anodyne. #i#impostorsyndromei#impostersyndromei#impostercomplexi#impostorcomplexb#beati...

This is the harsh reality of being an artist antwhere in any time. Getting paid for your work is important for artists, but the idea that you should be able to make a living from your art can be a trap. #fyp #art #culture #artandculture #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #DailyInspiration #dailywisdom #Creativity #Inspiration #artistsoftiktok #writersoftiktok #CreativesOfTikTok #ArtistLife #WritersLife...

I found a way past the massive problem of gathering my information and organizing it for a non-fiction book and that was to break it into small topics. I covered one topic a day and had my first draft in three months. I organized the topics into sections, but kept them as separate units and then I wrote an introduction for each section and voilà. I had a book for publication. ##nonfiction##writing...

Speaking as a former circus clown learn to walk a tight rope, I can tell you that writing isn’t all that different from wire walking. #fyp #writing #metaphor #wirewalking #tightrope #culture #artandculture #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #DailyInspiration #dailywisdom #Creativity #Inspiration #writersoftiktok #CreativesOfTikTok #ArtistLife #WritersLife #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #CreativeLifes...

If you’re a pantser like me, writing is risk-taking. You have a starting point for a story and you launch. Racing across the landscape. Making leaps when you come to a dead end. Hope you don’t fall flat on your face. #pantser #pantserwriter #plotstructure #plotquest #writerhabits #writingadvice #WritingTip #MyStory #MyCreativeJourney #HowIWrite #writersoftiktok #lifetip #writertok #writer #writers...

Creativity in the arts is no different from the creativity of the living universe. Creativity is the response to stress, difficulty, uncertainty, and challenge. It prompts experimentation and change, because the status quo is unsatisfactory. The stressors in your life that you lament aren’t in the way of your creativity. They are the fuel of it. ##wisewords##wisdom##wisewomen##DailyInspiration##da...

POVTORENIE MAT UCHENIYA” (repetition is the mother of learning). It’s one of those things that has both wisdom and is a trap. Learning that’s only by wrote can be stifling. But skills that can be applied to a create a task benefit from repetitive practice and mastery. #Aphorism #Sayings #Wisdom #RussianSayings #RussianAphorism #russianlanguage #Creativity #CreativityEveryDay #CreativityQuotes #cre...

The minute you try to build a presence on social media in order to accomplish a non-creative goal, you enter a very competitive arena that has nothing to do with your artistic abilities yet requires you engage and drain your creativity. Unless you’re a duck with a natural ability to float in that environment, you along with your artistic output, will sink into the deep end of frustration and feeli...

There is a “golden rule” of flow it seems. The secret is to be trying to do something that’s just beyond your skill set. Reaching for something takes you out of yourself, and brings all your focus onto the thing you’re reaching for. So if you’re finding a task, tedious and empty of flow, throw something into the mix that makes it a challenge, a challenge you are not sure you can meet, and then go...