Navigate Creative Blocks & Flow is for you when your studies ask for something new to come into being: an essay, a portfolio, a design brief, a composition, a thesis chapter, a performance piece. It is for beginners and practised makers alike, whenever creative work stalls or begins to flow.
It helps you move through blocks with patience and play, start before you feel ready, take feedback on a draft without losing your nerve and find a voice that is your own. It also helps you rest and refill the well when your creative energy runs low.
Inside are two PDFs, both with your name on every page: a printable deck of A4 cards and a matching ebook. The sections follow real creative situations: Creative Block, Starting New Project, Creative Criticism, Perfectionism, Finding Your Voice and Creative Burnout, with themes such as starting messy, separating yourself from your work, being done rather than perfect and progress over perfect. Each card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a set of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room for your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book, to read on a tablet or phone or to print and bind.
Begin with the one situation in front of you and print only those cards: Starting New Project for a blank page, Creative Criticism after feedback on a draft, Perfectionism when a piece will not let itself be finished. You Be Creative Too is its companion for growing creative capacity over the longer term.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life