CREATIVE BLOCK

Have you ever experienced a creative block mid-project or suffered from the horrible blank page syndrome? Being blocked is very common, especially when you are going through a bad streak or there are a lot of things going on in your life. This is a very personal process, so I'm going to tell you how I experience it.

Many times we have an idea for a project and we see it clearly, but when it comes to starting to materialize it we don't know where to start, or perhaps when we are halfway through the process something doesn't convince us and we don't know how to finish it. Talking to other creative people, I have found that it is super common to feel insecure about what you do or have the need to disconnect from time to time.

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Surely the more you force it, the more you are going to sink into the hole, so put aside what worries you for a few days and do other things, try a new activity, go for a walk in the countryside or the beach, whatever relaxes you the most, but without rushing or trying to go “to see if you get inspired”, go simply to be, to relax.

I usually have four hundred half-done things as a way of life, so I have known how to take advantage of that to develop my little tricks to forget about the project for a few days:

• Meditate, whatever works for you to escape.

• Do something around the house, do the laundry, tidy your room, whatever you should've done weeks ago (I haven't unpacked all the boxes from moving yet).

• Advance some unfinished work

• Update my portfolio

• Meet someone I haven't seen in a while

Normally, having so many things to do stresses me out a lot, but when I have a block, I try to use this to divert my attention and I take the opportunity to get things off my chest, because when inspiration comes I can lock myself away and put everything aside again. If you can't beat them join them. The main thing is not to put pressure on yourself, because the more you think about it, the worse it will be. You'll see that any day you will be doing your laundry, grocery shopping or talking to someone about anything and suddenly BOOM!, it will come to you. Like when you haven't found something you've been looking for for years and suddenly, when you're looking for something else, you find it.