Creativity in a Time of Isolation
10 useful tools and attitudes for keeping your creativity functioning
As more and more countries and cities shut down over the current Covid 19 outbreak, artists and creatives around the world are isolated at home like the rest of our friends and neighbors. Besides the difficult looming question of how to survive the financial implications of this time, there looms another question.
How do we hold onto our creativity while watching our personal worlds suddenly contract to the space of our own homes and at most a handful of people in that space?
While many of us creatives may be introverts, perfectly happy to stay to ourselves for extended periods of time, many are not. And even introverts may find it intimidating to have their isolation enforced by circumstances outside their control.
Staying creative and mentally active through this confusing and stressful time is important to us and to the people around us. It will help keep us aware, functioning, and mentally healthy. It will help make the world a brighter place.
I write this article with a strange sense of the ironies of life. Here are my credentials for telling you how to…
