Wrapping Up the Creative Year

2024 is slipping out the door and it’s a good time to reflect on what you accomplished (or perhaps didn’t). I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of things that I intended to do but never got around to. I wanted to finish a book (nope). I wanted to clean out all my old project files, scan the stuff that was necessary and put them on a storage drive (started, but didn’t finish). I wanted to write a spec script (no to that as well). There are several books I purchased and still haven’t read and some podcasts that I downloaded and never listened to. I bought a bunch of paint and resin and canvases and watercolor paper but I did not sit down and take the online tutorials or put in the time practicing techniques.

Watercolor image from Freepik.com

Listing and highlighting the things we didn’t achieve tends to make us feel like we’ve failed in our creative endeavors, but I’m going to make a case for why it’s important to take a hard look at our ‘un-accomplishments.’ But first, let’s look…