#creativeritual

[thecollectingmomentsproject]

Beyond Caffeine

Curating your pre-creative ritual like you’d pack a daypack. Let’s be honest. Most of us already have a pre-creative ritual. We just haven’t named it yet — which means we can’t use it on purpose. Maybe it starts with coffee: the ritual of the grind, the warm mug, the first slow sip. Maybe it’s a certain playlist, a particular chair, the specific angle of morning light through the window you…

Beyond Caffeine

[lucinaluun]

This morning, I held only this one corner of my keyboard up to the light—the rest remained in shadow. Outside, poppies and chamomile; inside, coffee and the first sentence. Somehow, this narrow focus makes writing easier: fewer distractions, more feeling. Question for you: What small visual or sensory triggers reliably get you into the flow? (Light? Sounds? Scents? The specific feel of your keys?)