MOTIVATION TO WORK AND CREATE

I have found that I am most excited to work on something when it is new and exciting. The biggest flaw I have with ‘getting excited’ about doing creative work is that I really struggle to do it when I am not in a creative mood, if I am tired, or not feeling 100% I put it off for another day, or take a backseat when doing things in groups. THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE.

I think in order to create anything this semester, and in fact for the rest of my life, I need to get over this ‘only working when I am in the mood’ thing that I find myself doing. By doing these reflections so often, I have started to find the benefit of doing work when I am not in the mood and pushing through until something is created. I have found that I am a creative person and that there is not an on off switch for this ‘creativeness’, just some days it is buried deeper than others and I have to push a little bit to find it.

REST OF SEMESTER: Create a scene or two every week leading up to the day of my final scene shooting, try and do it on the days I especially don’t feel like doing it.