You’ve heard the old adage… your best ideas come when you're in the shower.
Well I was just stirring melted chocolate for some cornflake cakes for my daughter, when my drifting mind got to thinking….
It’s so nice to be doing something different. In the daytime. On a Monday afternoon. It's an inset day, you see, and my daughter is home from school.
Every morning without fail I am at my desk. From 8am sharp until the “work” is done, or I have a school run, or my eyes go too blurry to carry on.
But is this habit necessary? Is it truly serving me and RockCakes as a whole? Or am I just hiding at my desk because it feels like it's what I should be doing. Of course, I need to be here sometimes to get things done, but do I need to be here all the time? Is this really where the magic happens?
The more off-centre my ideas are the better they are received - see Hungry Ghost and Pop Tart. I don't even remember actually designing them, they started as doodles I eventually chose to bring to life. Did I draw them at my desk? Probably not.
I'm about a week into using my blog as some kind of conversation with myself. I know that I want change in my life - an end to the niggling feeling that there is something I am just not seeing.
Am I too disciplined? And is it stifling my creativity? Hmmm... maybe I need to schedule in some not at my desk time and allow myself to trust that it still counts as work.
We are taught from the start that you go to work to do a job, but for creatives, the line is blurred. You are never working, and you are always working. Some of my beliefs might need to be undone.
Maybe I'll have a cake and contemplate this a little more...