So when I research how other people write, I come across seat of their pantsers, and die hard plotters, but that’s not me… I get really juicy, inspiring snippets that I get to run with by the seat of my pants and then organise them to form some kind of cohesive plot later on!

Welcome to my head!

Quoting myself; again! 🙂

Then there’s the evolutionary aspects of my stories, and this shows up in my creative style as well. Things leap and bound and evolve at an astonishing rate, and so rapid that mortal me can’t always keep up enough to get a good enough foothold to create a finalised thing.

So, I tried to tame it.

In my determination to learn how to control all that stuff, I entered a kind of battle with the way my head, and life, works for me, thinking that my style of doing things was unproductive and ‘un-finishable’, and that someone else’s way must be the answer…

So, I looked at how other people touted their happily productive styles and techniques… And I tried some of them, but found that I had to keep searching…

For Years!

Turns out that the unproductive part of things for me came from me resisting how my own, natural, internal mechanisms whir and wheeze,

And sometimes sputter and cough!

So, I love you if you can get a little taste of a beginning, then run with it to form a plot and schedule your armpits off so that you have a linear process, and map to follow. I do. I love you almost as much as I hate you.

(Not real hate, more like envy, but not envious enough to make me actually want to be like that.)

Gosh, I have these visions inside my head, and sometimes they feel so big that it’s like this ‘ginormous’ baby, and I think, how the heck am I supposed to cuddle up to that? It can be so intimidating that, if I even try to school any of it into order before it is ‘ready’, it becomes too big to do anything with, too much to even think about where to start.

So, then; what? How do I embrace the way that I do things?

I…

I work on what I am inspired to work on, when I’m inspired to work on it. I plot and plan and dream and chip away at a myriad of things, and woe be tied if I even think about lamenting the fact that this method is slow, and sometimes seeming never ending.

That sort of thinking is nothing but a repeating pattern, and one that just cycles back into into the unproductive resistance phase, and it keeps repeating until one gets over oneself. 🙂 (For YEARS if you let it!)

But once I stopped reacting to that crappy mind fart, I began to find ways through.

Now, I create a broad plan of what I want. I set up multiple folders and files, and I drip feed all of them according to whatever I am inspired to work on., and I use a journal, and notes, to remind me where I’m up to, and to keep track of it all.

I use this method for writing, and in other areas of my creative life.

So, after years of inactivity, inaction and overwhelm, I began working by inspiration and I have, finally, gotten that foothold in that ever evolving ‘sea of creation’ that I had been looking for. I’m finding ways that support my, ‘quantum leaping, fluffin’ evolutionary what nots’, and I’m more and more aligned with the results that I want. I’m more and more happy with what I’m doing, more and more clear on what I want to do with it all, and how I want to do it.

AND… I’m actually doing it!

And… Bonus! I always feel good about what I am working on, I’ve almost completely lost the feeling that, no matter what I am doing, I should be doing something else.

I’m shifting the weight of the way that the world does things off my shoulders, so to speak, and it’s illuminating, and interesting, and actually fun to explore.

Some weeks, I plan the crap out of them, and some I don’t.

I’ll use a tool for as long as it works, and find something else if it stops working.

I’ll run by the seat of my pants if that is what is working for me in the moment.
I utilise some ‘scheduled in’ stuff, sometimes, and the rest of the time, I…

Mostly, I love it, and sometimes I think, What the heck?, and often times, I laugh at myself.

What else can I do? 🙂

Once, I asked myself, What if all of my projects were finished at the same time?

Tsunami of crap freakout flowing on that one! 🙂

Ok, I live with a bunch of teenagers, and as dramatic as teenage-hood can be, I’ve been at the drama stuff wayyyy longer than those amateurs!

But my points are:

1. Keep going
2. Get over yourself
3. And…

With as much fun, and love, and joy, and well-being, and freedom, and abundance as possible, always… 🙂

♥JulieAnne