Let’s be creative….again

It’s been a while and I have lots of life updates. But we’ll get to that in another post. For now, I just want to write. And write about something fun. Now if I can only figure out what to write. If I only had a place to go that would give me inspiration and advice.

Oh wait, I do. Thanks to a YouTube video I watched a while back. I now have a notebook that I use to capture ideas. That’s the only thing this notebook is used for. I watched the video and the creator talked about having lots of ideas for videos and needing a place to keep them. So he started using a dedicated notebook to do just that.

Now, I’m not a YouTuber but I do want to be more creative. I want to write more. I want to get into more photography. And, who knows, maybe one day throw myself into the video world of YouTube. Either way, I want to do more creativity stuff.

I feel like we were made to be creative. Everyone has creative abilities and we’re all different. That’s what makes us so unique. I love to write. Others love to paint. I’m not good at photography but I want to learn. I don’t understand how all the settings work. I’ve always taken pictures on the automatic settings. I know that’s not the best picture and I should learn how to adjust things manually. So that’s on my list of things to learn.

I love to draw. I’m not very good at it but I love to do it. So I want to take the time to learn more drawing styles and learn how to do them. I want to become a better artist. Not for any particular reason. Except I want to.

I could mention other creative things that I would like to learn how to do. Make YouTube videos. Paint. Design things. But I also need to get back to what I love to do. And that’s writing. I know I’m not the best writer but I feel like I’m pretty decent at it. Problem is I haven’t been doing it lately.

As I mentioned earlier, there has been a lot of life events that have happened this year that have kept me busy and preoccupied. I didn’t feel inspired to write. I didn’t have the ideas. I didn’t have the ”want to”. Things caused me to lose interest in being creative for a while. That itch is finally coming back. I’ve been thinking and trying to figure out how to get back into the game (so to speak).

So I went back to the drawing board. I would love to do all those other things I mentioned before but I decided writing is what I need to get back to doing. I love to write. So why not start there? Problem was the ideas weren’t there. I wasn’t sure what to write about. I had some ideas but I couldn’t remember what they were.

That’s when I saw the video talking about capturing ideas in a notebook. I looked over on my desk and had a similar size notebook he was talking about. It was laying there so I grabbed it. I opened it up and started writing ideas for blog posts. Now I have 20 or so ideas written down that I can use for future blog posts. And, as more ideas come, I can write those down to. This way, hopefully, I’ll never run out of ideas to write about again.

I’m not sure how frequently I will write. I had to commit to a specific schedule. I’m hoping at least once a week I’ll be posting a new blog. I would love to do even more than that. We will have to wait and see. For now, though, I’m back. The creative part of me is ready to start creating. And, thanks to a Moleskine notebook, I have a lot of ideas to help me be creative.