This month has been a reset in a way I never expected. It has pushed me to take the reins and progress forward with renewed vigour in my creative practice. Increasingly, winter brings a slumber to my creative pursuits. My body wants to hibernate, my mind is darkened with the loss of daylight, and my soul tires beneath the cold that seeps to the bone. Yet in this time of thaw and reawakening, the fires that lay dormant through the winter, offering just enough warmth to smoulder through the...

Now that we’ve discussed the state of our creative fire and how to keep it burning, we need to look at how to reign in the blazing wildfire and harness that energy to work for us instead of something we have to fight with. Creativity is a force of nature, of energy, of will. It can overwhelm, distract, burn out, and consume. Passion is the wildfire, purpose is our drive to commit to a creative life. The two need each other. We cannot sacrifice purpose because we are impassioned. Nor can we...

Now that we’ve looked at the fire of our creativity and witnessed its passion, power, and purpose, we need to take stock of how we add fuel to keep those fires burning, however they show up in our lives. The fuel will be as diverse as the creatives who use it to feed their fires. However, certain tenets will hold true across the board.  We all have moments on our creative journey and within specific creative projects where we lag, are worn down, and frankly want to scrap it all and walk away....