CREATIVE LIFE

Follow These 5 Simple Rules to Get Out of Your Creative Slump on Any Day

Your creative muse lives in every cell within your body. Here’s how you can get her out

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7 min readAug 14, 2023

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“Art is an image-using system. In order to create, we draw from our inner well. You must replenish your well. As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.”

Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way.

What do you do when your creative juices run dry? — When you feel like you’ve given everything there is to give.

What do you do when you can no longer touch your images? You know the ones. Little ideas. Metaphors. Sentences that come together to make your stories. What do you do when you’re in a creative slump?

Last week, my friend gave me the best advice about how to replenish my creative juices.

Here are five simple rules that will guide you out of your creative slump on any day. Follow them when your creative juices run dry. Listen to them. Absorb them. Make them your own.

Evidently, they’ve worked for me(You wouldn’t be reading this story if they hadn’t).

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