Tracking my creative life

It is interesting already to look over this blog and see how I am tracking my creative life. I know that all kinds of things feed into it, even if they are not specifically 'creative.'

1. clearing blocks: changing the hoover bag was important. It meant I could tick it off an internal 'do list', which freed up time to do other things ( how creative can you be if every time you see the living room carpet you think 'I must empty the bag'? that kind of thinking spiral down). And it worked metaphorically: it was a mental/emotional unblocking of a humble kind. I then got down to finishing the NIP.

2. noticing what I see on the daily dog walk: the first acorns falling, the first blackberries, the shapes of trunks and branches, and the feelings that go with these, the sense of freedom in the top field, days shortening in the change of closing time (9.30 to 9.00. and now 8.30) which is good for me, I like autumn, it means new starts and more time inside (being creative). I need to start noticing other things, like people on the train, then perhaps I can write about something other than nature.

3. struggling with time to be formally 'creative' - and space: no obvious space in the new house to paint. But I've also decided that I need to concentrate on the writing for now. and all the knotty issues round that - finding readers, will it get published? does it matter?