Writers often talk about filling the creative well. I think everyone can benefit from filling this well because I believe every job and every life has a creative core. Lately, I’ve felt my creative well was getting low…very low…like I was running on empty.
So I’ve decided to go on an adventure once a week this summer.
My first adventure was yesterday. Nothing big and nothing very far from my home—just a 20-minute bus ride. A small step to get me started 🙂
I went for an hour-long walk around Victoria’s Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary—a marshland or (as the sanctuary’s website says) “a wild oasis in the heart of the urban landscape.” I highly recommend it! Even my walk from where the bus let me off, then across/under some busy roads to get to the sanctuary was inspiring—as seen in the first picture below…
Loved the wildflowers and all the birds singing! Now I’m ready to sit at my desk and write—and then go on my next filling-the-creative-well adventure! There was a path that branched off the Swan Lake trail that I didn’t have time to explore. It had a creative and enticing name—Christmas Hill.
Got a favorite way to fill your creative well, get energized, or unwind?
I love to hear about it! Hope you’ll leave a comment below.
Oh, and if you want to read more about Victoria’s Swan Lake and Christmas Hill, here’s their website.
Great way yo fill the creative well. I like to go for long walks and sit by the ocean. I also find cooking fills my creative well – something about the preparation that helps me clear my head from the clutter that is in the way of the story. Love the pictures – flowers are so pretty.
As I sit at my computer imagining how many of our senses (smell, taste, touch, sight) are engaged while cooking, it suddenly seems very logical that cooking would be a great way to spark creativity! I think I’ll test this and cook up an extra cup of coffee this afternoon 🙂
Great idea and lovely pictures! We just got back from the Lake District in England. Such an awe-inspiring place!
Oh! England’s Lake District would be super inspiring, Lark!
Swan Lake is amazing. I used to take Rob to their nature house quite often. We learned about bats, not bad or evil, they’re good for the environment and that feeding birds bread crumbs isn’t good for them. We no doubt learned many other things but I can’t remember them. And I know there’s a private school fairly close whose students like to hide in certain spots (like under the bridge( for breaks and ‘unscheduled free time.’