Where Are Your Steps Taking You?

After a few days of mulling over the first prompt, I feel compelled to talk about direction.  Sometimes, the easiest thing to do is follow everyone else, or just REPEAT the path we have already taken.  Duh, doesn't that mean we are LITERALLY running about hither and yon IN CIRCLES???

Plowing ahead with a new path (even when we don't have a map or guide) can be one of the most difficult, yet the most soul-rewarding and artistically-successful of adventures.  Consider each tiny thought you have (directed on the prompt) as steps, you might lose your way, backtrack a bit but just  check your inner compass (that intuition thing), and continue the journey.  Each thought, idea, collected object, discarded object, are leading to the decisions that will result in your final product.

Keep in mind that these are via points along the way as you learn to express your ideas, some of which you might not even recognize until they are concrete in the 3-D world.  Many times I make or write something that really doesn't make sense to my brain, but which feels in line with my intuition/soul.  I go with that.  I call it my 'creative impulse' and I trust it more than my brain BY FAR. 

How do you get to know your 'creative impulse'.  I think brainstorming, collecting words and objects that strike a cord with your intuition, and then by PLAYING with those items . . . move them around, look at them in different light, put some of them side by side and see if they like to play together.  You will find the more you practice with your creative impulse muscle, the easier and stronger it will become - it will speak louder to you because you are LISTENING for it.

So go ahead, play!!!!  You will find in the end that you have ARRIVED exactly where you were meant to be and that that destination will become the starting point of your next adventure.