This is not a regular Gremlins.
It’s a special edition.
After MANY Sundays together, I wanted to gather a few threads that run beneath all of them: the faith, the prayers, the affirmations, the rituals that make the work possible.
I’ve selected five moments every creative knows - how to fall back in love with the process, how to know when a work is ready to share, how to move through resistance, how to face comparison, and how to invite inspiration again.
Each comes with a reflection, a prayer, and a prompt… the way I always write for you.
This is The Gremlins’ Guide to Creativity.
It’s the blueprint behind everything I’ve shared so far, and it’s my gift to you, THE OG’s / the original Gremlins, the ones who’ve been here from the beginning and the ones who’ve just joined.
If it speaks to you, pass it on to someone else who needs it.
From The Factory >
Prompts >
JOURNAL:
When was the last time you felt truly in love with your creative process? What conditions made that possible, and how can you recreate them now?
ASK SOMEONE:
“How do you know when your work is ready to share?”
CREATIVE ACT:
Choose one unfinished piece you’ve been holding onto. Spend 10 minutes with it and add something to it not to finish it, but to move closer to it.
Musings >
“Start before you’re ready. Work before you know how.”
– Steven Pressfield, The War of Art“Creativity takes courage.”
– Henri Matisse, Artist“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
– Martin Luther King Jr., Speech, 1963“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, 1910
