Authors : Deanne Fitzpatrick : 101 Ideas for Living Creatively
101 Ideas for Living Creatively
Creativity inspiring ideas, expression-prompting activities, curiosity-satisfying quests.
By Deanne Fitzpatrick
really listen to music- see something new everyday you look out the same widow
- go to nature and rest
- read poetry
- write poetry
- journal
- go to art galleries
- take a day to wander in the city
- visit artists
- correspond to artists
- write a letter of praise to anyone
- seek out new artists
- spend day in the country
- order something in a restaurant you never ate before
- wear a different kind of clothes
- go someplace foggy
- spend time with someone who is deaf
- try new subjects in your art
- try new subjects in your reading
- travel
- spend a day in someone else’s shoes — even in your imagination
- do something that scares you
- take the train
- keep a dream journal for a week
- try yoga
- meditate
- dance
- calendar a new experience
- finger-paint
- work with clay
- no plan day with a kid
- stop and actually smell the rose, or the lilacs, or the lily of the valley
- spend one day no talking
- draw sounds or smells
- put sketchbooks and pencils in odd places
- get new colour tools — like a box of crayons
- take a drawing course
- sketch your friends
- throw a party
- bake a pie
- swim
- walk
- make bread
- build a fire
- eat blueberries, pick blueberries
- sign up for a course alone
- go out to lunch alone
- go to a concert alone
- do an activity you don’t really like
- say no
- say yes
- no rules
- break the rules
- learn to love lavender
- learn to like puce
- paint your toe nails a different colour
- massage a friend’s shoulders
- look someone up you enjoy
- invite someone you don’t know well to an impromptu lunch
- go to church
- walk a labyrinth
- plant a pot or a garden
- plant pot
- go to a farm
- change the part in your hair
- change your hair colour
- get a tattoo even henna
- try a new road
- a new recipe
- cook for a week
- don’t cook for a week
- listen to new CD’s at the music store
- go without TV for a week
- teach a group old or young
- sit by the sea
- visit a cemetery
- architectural tour
- talk to older family members
- write down their stories
- wear high heels
- look at old photos
- don’t spend money one day
- decorate your flip flops
- wear scarves in your hair
- put a flower in your hair
- buy a big broach
- hang your clothes on the line
- kiss your lover
- buy a present/give it just because
- write a poem to someone you love
- write a poem to someone you don’t like
- burn it
- just be yourself — say what you really think
- sort out what’s you and what’s influence
- cut out pictures from magazines
- put your fridge door on the art pages
- move the pictures in your house around
- paint a room
- make a studio
- lay outside and sunbathe, get a book
- bury your feet in the sand at the beach
© 2008 Deanne Fitzpatrick
About the Author | More by Deanne Fitzpatrick
Deanne Fitzpatrick is a member of the Editorial Board of Rug Hooking magazine and has been the subject of a television documentary and features on national radio shows. Her credits include numerous magazines, solo exhibits, and authoring several rug hooking books including Hook Me a Story, a History and Method of Rug Hooking in Atlantic Canada
. Learn more about Deanna and her beautiful works of art by visiting HookingRugs.com.
11/17/08
