Before describing what “Creativity Prompt” is all about, let me share my story with you.

I was born with a creative urge and it has never left me. As a child I was free to create as I wished and the rules of the “real world” didn’t bother me. Growing up I have gradually abandoned my ability to defy these rules and have become less and less attentive to the core of creativity which resides inside me.

The closest I allowed myself to lead a creative life was by getting a law degree, following two passions – writing and mediating. Nonetheless, the strong will to create art kept smoldering, begging me to let it out and relentlessly stealing a big chunk of my attention and concentration from all other activities.

I was sitting at my corner office, staring at the computer screen or at the legal document I was holding and feeling a strong tickling sensation in my hands. This sensation was pleading me to go home, pull out my art supply and play!

I was a good lawyer but I had preferred to be an artist.

The opportunity presented itself to start the process of freeing my creative child from his cage deep inside me. Creativity Prompt is my way of sharing this process of excavating my core creativity by providing useful ideas and exercises to boost your creativity – along mine.

The prompts are designed to spark creativity in many different areas – drawing, scrapbooking, journaling, creative writing and more. With these sparks I intend to ignite a fire of creativity in you as well as in me.

In order to put some structure into the process, there are 3 sections to the blog:

1. Inspiration Prompts. A tidbit of inspiration. It can be a quote, an image, a video or any other inspiring idea which can help to jump start your day.
2. Journaling Prompts. A journaling prompt which is designed to get our creative writing juices flowing.
3. Creativity Prompts. The prompt is a suggestion for a creative project. Sometimes the project is small and simple and other times it is more elaborate. The idea is to summon your inner creative child and play.

I hope you will enjoy the ride and will find the prompts useful for your own process.

Credits

• Header’s fonts: Erika Ormig & WC Roughtrad Bta.
• Staples & jewles on the header are from Karla Dudley’s Digi Essentials No.2 kit.
• Icons of reader and e-mail subcriptions are by famfamfam.