Finding Creative Ease Through Play

Ideas and inspiration don’t come out of nowhere. There’s a lot of work that goes into feeling original or inventive. Luckily, a lot of that work is actually play. Finding a sense of creative ease in your day-to-day life can help you feel more inspired and productive. Let’s talk about how you can play around to get there.

For me, creative ease is a pervasive sense of peace around my writing. I don’t struggle to sit down and write. Inspiration comes easily. I’m not fighting myself every single step of the way. My mind is focused on the thing I’m writing and not going in a million other directions.

When I’ve cultivated creative ease in my life, I can show up to my writing time and hit the ground running. Basically, I feel more like a writer.

Play has consistently been the one thing that helps me feel more inspired. When I make time to play, I can write more. When I don’t, writing feels impossible.

And if I’m being honest, the events of my childhood probably made me a writer.

A Very Feral Childhood

I had a super feral, working class childhood.

(Don’t tell Gen X because they like to think they were the last feral children. And like, I’m happy to let them have that because honestly, they started the hard work of actually…