How to get over the fear of the blank page and keep on creating.
Jenni Avins & Jason Karaian just got back from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. “The ‘festival’ is in fact an advertising conference, where the world’s biggest agencies and consultancies, social media platforms, and brands gather to celebrate, well, themselves.”
“There are a lot of creative people here, and disciplined ones at that. People whose jobs require them to have good ideas, again and again, under great scrutiny.
Jenna Lyons, who is working on a new content-and-commerce project (including TV show), after more than 25 years at J.Crew and a two-year sabbatical.
“As we covered this week’s conference, we asked many of those people how they get over the fear of the blank page and keep on creating. What do they do to break out of a creative rut?”
Their hacks include showing up, doing a whole lot of work, respecting deadlines and “Whatever is going on, trust it. It’s yours, you’ll find something uniquely you through it”.
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