Announcement: ‘Methods and Madness: Notes on Creativity’
2021 ended with something of an experiment for me. On the spur of the moment, I decided to dip my big toe into the world of Substack and put together a short-lived newsletter, initially designed to finish just before Christmas. I had folders full of nice little morsels: ideas, prompts, and reflections geared towards getting people’s creative juices flowing and / or eliciting reflections on what it is to be creative.
This newsletter started out as an Advent Calendar: 23 creative prompts in the 23 days leading up to Christmas Eve. But I had so much fun doing it, and received so much positive feedback, that I have decided to keep it going into next year. Thus, I have changed the name from ‘Meredith’s Advent Calendar’ to Methods and madness: Notes on creativity.
I am giving subscribers two options:
Sign up to my free monthly newsletter. At the end of each month, you will receive a bulletin containing inspirations, ideas, and resources to help you to connect to and develop confidence in your creativity. And every now and again I’ll send a few extra emails with a few extra prompts, just for those who want to extend themselves.
Sign up for my paid emails. As well as the monthly newsletter, you will receive fortnightly emails containing creative prompts. In these emails, I will be sharing content that is original, thought provoking, creative, reflective, and playful. Images, prompts, questions, quotations, exercises for your mind and imagination will tease and probe the creative side of your personality.
I am a mentor, writer, and transformative facilitator and what I focus on is creative identity and process: how do individuals and groups perceive their creative identity? Are they confident in connecting to their imaginations? How do external conditions affect internal lives? The feedback I have received so far from subscribers showed me that there was a place within my practice for these emails, that they could be another way to pass on inspiration or support reflexivity.
Visit my Substack page and check out earlier copies of the newsletter.
