What Helped Me Most This Week

I’m trying to do something creative every day. I’m documenting it here. I’ve changed up the format a little bit, so if you don’t always look at the blog, check it out again!

This week, I posted a lot more frequently and did a lot of fun things. I visited Golden Hour Books and purchased a copy of The Paris Review, watched The Adaptation, read a wonderful nonfiction essay in Passages North called “First Born” by Jordan Walker, read a great poem in Bomb Magazine (“America” by Catherine Weissmade), made a bunch of mini-books as part of a take-home kit I’m creating for kids at the library (learn to make the ones I’m making here), and I worked on a bunch of micros. Of all of those things, the one that I feel really helped my creativity this week was making all of those mini-books.

In some ways, this actually relates back to last week, in which I did a kind of boring task while listening to a podcast. While I made these mini-books, I was, in fact, listening to The Magnus Archives. But I was a bit more excited about the end goal of making all the mini-books.

The whole idea behind these take-home kits is that I’m going to put in a bunch of stuff to decorate the mini-books—fun patterned paper, googly eyes, stickers. And I feel like I should make at least one ‘example book’ to show kids/parents when they get the little books. So as I’m making book after book, I’m really looking forward to finally decorating one. I find the whole concept of book-making really interesting, but I feel like I’ve never quite cracked exactly how I can incorporate that into my general creative practice. I’m hopeful that maybe this will help me unlock that and play around with book-making as an extension of my micro practice.

So, that’s what actually helped my creativity, and also helped me generally, the most this week.

Love and gratitude, as always.