Ep 18: Life Interrupting Art

Do life changes help or hurt the creative process? We have decided to create some geographical disruptions to help us investigate this quandary. Well, not really, but let's pretend that we are doing this for science anyway. Steph will be in Germany for at least the first 3 months of 2020 AND Summer is visiting Japan for 2 weeks around then as well! Hooray for swapping regions madness! 

Don’t worry, our first season of Creatively Complicated will continue through 13 December but this week we're having a chat about what it's like when life interrupts our creative projects. Are "forced" breaks good or bad for our creativity? Should we scramble to compensate for missed productivity or just relax and go with the flow?

Spoiler alert: The outcome of this discussion was more positive than we anticipated. 

Links:

Steph’s YouTube channel closure video (that she forgot to post for hours):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwdOwwPapY 

Quotes:

“The more I add things to the Germany to do list, the more I put the list aside and work on the podcast. I have been in straight avoidance mode for at least a week now.” -Steph

“I think it’s good to take a break sometimes. I am that big person on savoring anticipation. I enjoy the act of putting it off.”-Summer

Music: And a big thank you to Alex of Kwick Lights (https://kwick-lights.de/de) for recording our snazzy new intro/outro jingles! Thanks also to Lena of Lena On The Move (https://lenaonthemove.com/) for the sound idea and pulling this together for us! Check out Alex and Lena's Nuremberg-based band, Off The Grid, at https://www.instagram.com/offthegrid.music/ 

 Contact us: 

Creatively Complicated (in Internetland):

Twitter: Creatively Complicated Podcast, @stephandsummer

Email: [email protected]

Summer (in Germany):  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/summeroutside/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/summeroutside

Blog: https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/

Stephanie: (in China): https://linktr.ee/stephfuccio

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