Ep 19: The Shelf Life of a Creative Idea

If only sourcing good ideas were as simple as walking down to the Amazing Ideas Emporium and loading up a basket of suitably fulfilling, challenging, and hopefully money-making creative visions.

But it’s not. 

So how do we “get” ideas? And how long do they stay fresh? Should we push through with an idea just because it was strong for a moment OR learn to let them go if the energy behind it fades? 

Quotes:

“Messiness is an inherent part of creativity.” -Summer

“Acknowledging the messy, admitting the messy, working around the messy, I am comfortable with those. It kinda has to get messy to get done.” -Steph

 “We are protective of those concepts, when we have a new idea that we’ve started. Is this protection of our idea or of ourselves?” -Summer

“I used to feel very confined by notebooks. If something wasn’t working or I couldn’t find a place for it to exist in the world or I just got really sick of working on it I would literally burn it.” -Steph

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

This episode was created with:

Steph and Summer’s microphones Samson Q2U  Auphonic, free online leveling software We see each other (and our various facial expressions) on the remote video software, Zoom. This is also our back up audio file.  We are now recording our own tracks with Audacity and then Summer is doing two track editing on them.