How to Keep a Stalled Creative Project Alive

How to Keep a Stalled Creative Project Alive

Crux Media Co.
Creativity

Sometimes you make something and hate it when it’s all said and done. You’d think this would be impossible, but somewhere along the way, you get knocked off course. Your project starts to suck and you can’t salvage it. You end the process with something that you hate and don’t want to share. Sometimes the dread over a project can be so bad that you refuse to show it to anyone - which is the ultimate death of a creative endeavor. Before you get to that point, there are some things you can try. Here are a few techniques I use to resuscitate a dying project.

Three General Tips for Learning Any New Skill

Three General Tips for Learning Any New Skill

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The following three tips are intended to be skill-specific - meaning they help the most when you are learning something that you do, rather than something that you just know. Both types of knowledge are valuable, but a skill requires you to actively use your hands and mind to produce some type of output. So to me, learning a skill means taking that stored knowledge, practicing a process with that knowledge, and producing some output that arises from the combination of knowledge and process.

Three Ways to Keep Momentum During Creative Projects

Three Ways to Keep Momentum During Creative Projects

Crux Media Co.
Creativity

Fighting procrastination is hard - especially over the course of a creative project. The nature of a creative project - making something where there was nothing - is full of mystery and uncertainty. This is part of the fun, but it’s also the main driver of procrastination. Here’s three methods I use to fight procrastination off and keep working until the project is done.