Full Description
Sooner or later, most of us get stuck. Feel stuck. Our creativity in crisis... lost, blocked, overwhelmed by work, family, illness. How to find or recover that creative edge? How to get unstuck?
For the authors, it began with cancer and stretched into the pandemic. One primarily a writer and the other a painter, they decide to walk together, to talk, write, feed back, reflect and repeat, again and again. They explore trust, openness, motherhood, their willingness to take risks and be exposed, and the particular insights they bring as women. Along the way, they walk and map their way back to creative life.
This is their story, but more than that - it's a map for anyone who is feeling stuck. Whether or not you have had a creative practice before (writing/painting/making/crafting), this book will help you find your way into creative expression. The authors offer creative tasks and suggestions in each chapter, and ideas and structures to get you going. But most important, they offer warmth, friendship and inspiration from their own shared vulnerability, struggle, setbacks and muddy walking.
Contents
Introduction: Our Own Creative Recovery
Chapter 1: Why are we doing this?
Walk 1: Stanmer Park to Chattri Memorial and back
Looking back
Chapter 2: Accepting Fear
Walk 2: Brighton Marina to the Palace Pier and back
Our Personal Creativity
Inspiration and Play: Enticing your creativity back into the open
Chapter 3: New Intentions
Walk 3: Chanctonbury Ring - The Return
Using your personal archives to reconnect with your creativity
Chapter 4: Embracing Uncertainty
Walk 4: Balcombe Circular via Ardingly Reservoir
Whose voice is it anyway? Accepting our inner critic
Skipping past the inner critic: Image making and re-imagining
Chapter 5: Covid Diaries
Reclaiming Stories
Chapter 6: Passing Clouds - Keeping Creativity Moving
Final walk: Devil's Dyke to Ditchling Beacon and back
In Conversation - Why does this matter?
Conclusion: The possibility of change
