Creative Droughts - Creative Doubts?

Silence the doubt.

When you are in a drought, know that it is to a purpose…

We all have creative droughts - creative blocks, artists blocks, writers blocks etc. - but I think instead of punishing ourselves for feeling a blockage we should delve into that block and pull out something even more beautiful at the end of it.

Droughts are terrible. Droughts hurt. Droughts are long, airless seasons of doubt that make us grow, give us compassion, and blossom as unexpectedly as the desert with sudden flowers. Droughts do ends droughts end because we have kept writing. They end because we have not collapsed to the floor of our despair and refused to move. We have doubted, yes, but we have stumbled on. In a creative life, droughts are a necessity. The time in the desert brings us clarity and charity. When you are in a drought, know that it is to a purpose… and keep writing, keep going.

- Brette Sims, STUK Founder