My wife and I love each other very much. We also don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, mostly because we agree that it is a shameless money-grab that guilts people into performative “romance.” She finds it very irksome. We went grocery shopping on Wednesday night, quite on impulse because we were already out and needed to “pick…
Author: brmitf
Note-taking review: How a bullet journal may – or may not – inspire your creativity
A lot of people swear by the bullet journal. Half appointment book, half sketchbook, and all-analog. No laptop, tablet, app, or software needed. All one needs is a pen and a pad. I tried it out and I’ll tell you what I think of it. Bullet journal intro If you’re not aware of what a…
The best note-taking method (no, the answer is not in this post)
This blog is largely about my relationship with creativity, and exploring how to keep the flow going with planning and organization. I’ve struggled with organization all my life, relying primarily on my memory to call to mind things I wanted to do, seeds of ideas that I wanted to cultivate, and the whereabouts of tools…
Blog accountability – one month
It has been a hard couple of weeks. I won’t get into the details of family health drama, but my intent for this blog was at least 1 long post at the beginning of the week (on Tuesdays), and a shorter post on Friday. Considering that after week two, when everything started to devolve, I…
Why a blog?
Why am I writing a blog in 2024? Aren’t AI/LLMs just going to replace blogs? There does seem to be a lot of auto-generated noise out there. This little collection of thoughts is a mere droplet in a vast sea. Maybe writing a blog is futile. Maybe I remember Wil Wheaton wrote a blog that…
Finding beauty where you can
I was looking for books on creativity and the creative process. Not how to make things, but why we make things. A philosophy of creativity, so to speak. During my initial search process I came across some reviews of “The Artist’s Way” (not an endorsement, I haven’t read it). One reviewer complained that it was…
Prolific
I don’t know how daily bloggers do it. I never intended to write posts daily, but those bloggers must have way more time than I do. Or they are just overflowing with material. I think I wouldn’t mind having either state. Or both.
Undirected creative frustration
Watching digital spaghetti’s interview with Natalie Lynn about cinematic video storytelling. I was actually almost brought to tears seeing this poignant, dark, top-director-feature-film style video content by a person who is SO young (to me, anyway). She has this natural ability to evoke a mood primarily by editing, and it seems almost instinctive. And one…
Capturing ideas
I’ve been experimenting with different methods for capturing ideas. Of course, capturing them is no problem, making them retrievable is another matter. The Heap My main method is an “ideas” text file in my cloud storage I call “The Heap.” Don’t even get me started on the tabs I have open on my browser “so…
My minimally creative project
Some time ago I was feeling down because I felt like I had no gas in my creative tank. Sometimes, that happens because I have too many projects, so I get frozen in indecision. Other times, life just squeezes all the juice out of me. This time it was the latter. So one day, as…