When your muse is nowhere to be found | #133
Use 'Early Morning Goblin Hour' and optimal hours to get her back
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The experiment of ‘weekend flow’
Since I have talked about being stuck for some time, I have been trying to look for solution(s).
It might be a great time to start The Artist’s Way again as spring is here. I can take the books that I am reading (English Literature by Jonathan Bate and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab) on my upcoming 75 artist dates. This post from Internet People and their archive would be a great guide if you want to do a minimal Artist’s Way.
If you have more time than average people, you may consider doing a minimal Artist’s Way and make use of the optimal hour I explain below. It would be a no-brainer for us to try that on a weekend.
Let’s call the above ‘weekend flow’, where we use the optimal hours for creative input and output. Since we only have the entire day to ourselves on the weekend, I am going to create a plan for that.
The idea of ‘Early Morning Goblin Hour’ from V. E. Schwab is to make great use of the early mornings without interruption and she uses that to consume shows when everything is dimmed in her room. That is her time for input, where inspiration hits.
If we want to experiment with that, we can try that at 5am to 7am. It depends if you want to go back to sleep after ‘Early Morning Goblin Hour’ and wake up at 8am again.
When 8am is here, we can start our day normally and sit down to brain storm some ideas for the day. It can be an idea for an essay, characters, scenes or whatever idea that you need for your projects. If you have executed some ideas on the day before, you can spend your 8am on those ideas and revise.