Journaling is only recently important to me! I do ‘automatic writing’ every day, usually first thing while drinking warm lemon-water, for 10 – 15 minutes.
Credits: Elizabeth Haidle How important is journaling to you? Honestly, this does wonders to give me a second wind in the afternoon! It was suggested to me 5 years ago, I swear I would never have thought that up on my own. I have lots of tricks to keep from getting too tired, from boring stuff like going to bed early enough (and cutting back on caffeine so I can actually sleep) to more exciting or terrible sounding ones, like taking a one minute freezing cold shower. I realized that just physical fatigue is the biggest enemy of creative rundown. If I can’t get away, I get up early while it’s still dark, and sit in a pile of beanbags/pillows under blankets and try to let anything on my brain out onto the sketchbook! What do you need to keep up a creative routine? Going away on regular retreats so I can just focus on a few books and on generating new ideas. Dear Beth, when it comes to creating, which routine is most important to you?
Here’s what she has to say about the speed of handwriting, the pandemic, and creative routines (spoiler: getting up early and freezing cold showers.) A dialogue. Copyright: Elizabeth Haidle If she’s not illustrating, writing or guiding others through the drawing jungle, artist Elizabeth Haidle is dreaming of a fine summer in the northern New Mexico mountains. Elizabeth in her self-designed Emotional Pajama (rocksoup).
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