Ep 7: Creative Process & Product, part 1 of 2

In August we are spelunking through our creative input and output in a two part episode.

This episode is where we are stumbling around in a dark creative cave, trying to figure out how to turn on our creative flashlights (creative flow), find out what spotlight is best (quality), and which tunnel to follow (audience feedback). Was that analogy a step too far (pun intended)? Maybe. But it feels like a lot of this creative talking out of things is such a new skill. Personally, I (Steph) have only really talked to myself about most of these things my entire creative life, so there is a lot of finding my creative vocals in terminology and definity (if that isn’t a word, it should be!)

We started with the question...

How do you know if you are moving forward and what does that even mean?

...and went wherever our creative pitch forks took us. In the next episode, coming out the 3rd Friday in August, we approach the light at the end of the tunnel (final product). But wait, is it the outside (success) OR is it another creative spelunker also looking for the exit (recognition and the right audience).

Rabbit Holes:

Steph: 

-Mobile phone options (font size, notifications, font type)

-Audible options with saving audio clips for “Upheaval” by Jared Diamond

https://www.audible.com/pd/Upheaval-Audiobook/1980024987

Summer: 

Pico Iyer’s Twitter account, https://twitter.com/PicoIyer

“Everything important takes place somewhere between the grubbiness of deals and the unreality of ideals” from Pico’s Twitter posts  

(Bookish Expats episode where Summer and I talk about his book “The Global Soul”

https://bookishexpats.podbean.com/e/ep-17-two-podcasting-geopats-discuss-the-global-soul-by-pico-iyer/)

Links:

-Blinkist, book summary app, https://www.blinkist.com/

Quotes:

“It’s striking me right now that it’s the opposite of photos, when I look at photos from 5 or 10 years ago, I think holy cow, I did not know I looked like that. I actually look a lot better than now.  Whereas with the creative process it feels like it’s the opposite, where you don’t know how bad you are but you’re confident in moving forward because you think it’s good but it actually was probably crap.” -Steph

“If you look at  your creative work from 5 years ago and you cringe a little bit, does that mean that you are closing your own gap?”   Summer

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):

Email: [email protected]

Summer (in Germany):  

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/summeroutside

Blog: https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/

Stephanie: (in China): 

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephfuccio

Website: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/

This episode was created with:

 Steph and Summer’s microphones Samson Q2U  Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software