Category Archives: Creativity Cauldron

Creativity: A Manifesto

Over the next week, I’ll probably transform this into a PDF, but right now I’ve just finished writing it and am far too excited about sharing it to wait! What is creativity? This is a nice, simple little question that’s been nudging me for the last few months. Creativity is one of the deep underpinnings…

Creativity Cauldron #6: Jars and Pig-sties

In which I set some gentle and mindful intentions for next week and explore what happened with growing my wishes from last week. Whoa. It seems like a lot has gone on since I wrote last week’s Creativity Cauldron post. And this is despite feeling frustrated last week about how slowly things were unfolding. Onto…

Creativity Cauldron #5: Seaside Adventures

  In which I set some gentle and mindful creative intentions for the next week and explore what happened with growing my wishes from last week. Yes, even in the middle of this cold snap. So, streamers for last week please. Not only did I get to spend time playing with all my wishes, I…

Creativity Cauldron: Calling Number #4

Noticing! Exploring! Playing with creative wishes! Picking up where I left off after the hiatus of being sick. And yet, everything I wanted to create and play with last time has happened. I finished drawing my Andrea-inspired Goddess of possibility, which got me thinking about the joy of wonkiness too. I have done much personal-explorey…

Creativity Cauldron the Third

I figure at some point I might have to start titling these. Hmmm, that could be fun! Just a little recap, for me as much as anyone, on what I’m growing here: What we do at the Cauldron We play with our creative wishes and project for the week ahead. We decide what we want…

Creativity Cauldron the second

So over the last two weeks I’ve been having a steady stream of thoughts about this wonderful, spontaneous idea I had at the end of December, and what I want to do here. What we do at the Cauldron We play with our creative wishes and project for the week ahead. We decide what we…

Welcome to the Cauldron

At the moment I’m moving from having a highly structured writing practice based around my MA to the exciting wilds of being able to write whatever I want, whenever I want to. Which is freeing and wonderful and also slightly scary. I’m definitely missing the structure of having regular deadlines. (Yeech…not my most favourite word…