I co-run a design business and care about creating high-quality branding and designs for clients. This daily challenge would be tough for me, I like a brief, a plan, and someone to collaborate with. Would I have the time and energy to create daily? Could I create quickly without caring about the outcome? Would I follow through with sharing the results on social?

Starter for Ten - May 5th 2023

The last day of the challenge! I woke up knowing I wanted to write and create a visual about what the process of this challenge meant to me and express gratitude to the people who have supported me and followed the journey. Ten minutes wasn’t enough.

Starter for Ten - May 4th 2023

What are you currently lying to certain people around you about? Interesting question from the Know Yourself cards which triggered the idea for today’s ten-minute story.

Starter for Ten - May 3rd 2023

Banging on about not drinking again, it has seriously changed my life. I’m not saying I will never drink again but I’m enjoying being sober and being free of beer fear.

For the visual challenge, I decided to pick an object and draw it for five minutes with my dominant hand (right) and then do the same with my non-dominant hand (left).

Starter for Ten - May 2nd 2023

This morning I had to catch a train to a meeting, I arrived early and took the opportunity to write while waiting. I love writing outdoors, it feels like freedom.

Most artists create a self-portrait so I thought I would have a go. In the ten minutes I managed to crank out three, all terrible!

Starter for Ten - May 1st 2023

What a difference a good night’s sleep makes, I’m feeling brighter today and decided to raid my husband’s record collection for inspiration. Choosing a record at random, I used the image on the back cover to kickstart the ten minutes of freewriting. Then I played the record while drawing to create the visual.

Starter for Ten - April 30th 2023

I’m feeling pretty anxious this evening. When I was a child, and I felt this way, I would close my eyes. Sometimes I would see lots of eyes looking back at me. It would freak me out. Pretty weird. Drawing this made me feel a bit better, and I’m finding that drawing is helping me feel calmer and less anxiety overall. That’s a great outcome, even if my drawings are a bit rubbish.

Starter for Ten - April 29th 2023

It’s the end stretch of the creative challenge, only six days left to go. It’s not been easy to make it happen, weekends have been the hardest and I’m looking forward to having next weekend off.

Taking a Saturday off made me think of the tv show Eastenders which inspired today's freewriting…

Starter for Ten - April 28th 2023

The inspiration for today’s writing came from a book. I wasn’t sure how to start so I picked up a book, turned to a random page and used the first part of a sentence. He was on the verge of nodding off…

Starter for Ten - April 27th 2023

Today I tried to focus on creating a story with a start, middle and end in ten minutes. I spent some time thinking before diving right in, which is what I usually do, and I’m pretty happy with this attempt. Going slower here inspired me to do the same for the visual challenge.