A lot of great stuff has come from doing the Daily Create, but at a significant cost to other things I might have been doing. I think that I produced a lot of stuff that had seeds of good ideas in them but were mediocre in themselves because they were essentially "throw away" ideas. I produced less of the bigger, more substantial projects that I've done over the past few years because my mental and creative energy was being directly at these smaller daily projects. I certainly blogged on my main blog a lot less than I used to. I did notice that while I may have produced a lot of stuff here on this site each day, it also meant there were other things that I was not doing elsewhere. Mind you, I'm not going to beat myself up about it, as I look back and see a lot of other things I am really happy with.īut there is certainly an "opportunity cost" for this type of project. At times this project has actually caused me to seriously doubt my creative ability when I simply could not think of anything interesting. There have been days when it's been a real struggle to come up with something, or what I did come up with was not very inspiring to me.
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A full year of doing something as a daily creative act has been, at times, quite exhausting. What's in store for 2015? Well, I'm not going to just continue this project. Some of it will be shit, but some of of it will be amazing. Living a creative life really is that simple. We allow the moments of wonder or curiosity or humour or insight to just pass by without taking that moment and making something out of it. Most of us do have creative ideas, usually triggered by some level of curiosity or wonder, but we too often don't act on that curiosity.
I discovered - again - that curiosity + action = creativity. You can not only learn to be creative, you can force yourself to be creative. You make lots of stuff and some of it will be good. I wish I didn't miss any days at all, but on the whole, I've surprised myself with what I did do.Ĭreativity is not a mystical gift that some people have and others don't. I missed a few days here and there (only 17 in total). That's perhaps been the most surprising thing. I think there have been some amazing pieces that I know I would never have come up with without the daily discipline I set for myself of coming up with something every day. I've done some things that I've been incredibly happy with, that I've surprised myself at what I managed to create. Many have just been done because I promised myself Id do SOMETHING, and at 5 minutes to midnight I'd find some app that I hadn't used much before and bang out something just for the sake of it.īut there is a flip side to that too. That's not to say that every daily create has been a piece of brilliant creativity.
I've discovered so many new tools, apps and ideas just because I knew I had to. Secondly, it's been personally rewarding to have forced myself to try and come up with a different project every day for a year. I didn't do this project for you, but I am truly humbled that others may have received some inspiration or value from it. From comments left on posts from individuals, to the unexpected site statistics created by unknown websurfers (the site had over 40,000 page views during the year) to the people that came up to me at conferences and told me how much they enjoyed it, thank you. And yet, I've been astonished and surprised at just how much feedback I've received from people about this project. When you do a project like this, even when you blog about it and share it online, there is a very real probability that you do it in a vacuum and that no one will even notice you're doing it. Firstly I really want to thank all those people who followed along with what I was doing here.
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