Starter for Ten - April 17th 2023

Attempted to write from my imagination this morning. I find it more challenging. I’m going to do some reading tonight to see if I can find some tips to help, I will share what I find tomorrow. For the drawing I decided to draw from life again and I really got into this one. I wanted to keep going after ten minutes and see what it would look like finished. I have left it on my desk to see if I feel like adding more later.

Starter for Ten - April 16th 2023

I have a confession, I just couldn’t make the challenge a priority today. Instead I went to the park to train, enjoyed a 3 hour walk in nature with a friend, played sudoko for an hour, basically did everything I could to trick myself into thinking it was ok not to write or create. It got to 9pm and I suddenly thought future Yo is going to be annoyed, just do something, anything!

Starter for Ten - April 15th 2023

Earlier this year I decided to take a break from drinking alcohol, it feels good. I find myself thinking a lot about why we choose to drink and hangovers. I don’t miss those! Disclaimer: The story, pictured, is fictional and not about my husband (he wanted me to make that clear, which made me laugh).

Starter for Ten - April 14th 2023

Last night I went to a breathing workshop ran by resilience coach Josh Connolly. Yes, I paid money for someone to tell me how to breathe.

I have never done breathwork before and was recommended to try it out by my friend and work coach Emma Shanahan. For today’s ten minute writing and creative exercise I wanted to journal on the experience.

Starter for Ten - April 13th 2023

Today I decided to do the visual challenge first. I woke up with the idea of drawing lots of dots and giving myself the task of turning them into as many things as I could, within ten minutes, by only drawing around them. View a video of the result here.

Starter for Ten (S410) is a daily creative exercise that I am doing for 30 days. I set a ten-minute timer and write whatever comes into my head. After that, I do the same to create a visual. The idea is to loosen up, create daily and get over the idea that everything I make needs to be perfect or have a purpose. Here’s what I have learned so far…

Starter for Ten - April 12th 2023

This morning was a bit of a brain dump on the youtube video below that I’ve been thinking about since I watched it last week. The title had me click instantly, why wouldn’t I want to learn how to stop fighting my mind? What do you do instead?

Starter for Ten - April 11th 2023

It’s interesting starting with a blank page and seeing what comes out when you start writing. Some days it feels easier than others, this morning this just flowed in the ten minutes…

Starter for Ten - April 10th 2023

The intention for the writing today was to write from the point of view of a cat, not sure it comes across the way I wanted but I enjoyed writing this…

Starter for Ten - April 9th 2023

Visiting the in-laws for Easter and invited my father-in law Richard Reeve to join me for the ten minute creativity challenge. He agreed and challenged me to create in clay…