Midpoint & Momentum
Reflecting on progress, recharging the creative engine, and seeking new sparks to shape the next six months.
It’s the end of Q2 of 2025 - half-way through the year. For me, my strategic objective was to have completed 20 poems in total.
The good news is that I achieved that exactly. I had a stretch goal of reaching 25 completed poems, but May was a bit of a wash-out and I only managed a couple of poems; enough to reach my ‘good enough’ target.
The not-so-good news is that my pipeline of drafts has dried up (again, as a consequence of May being a bad month, creatively). I only have one draft poem, and that is just few ideas for potential lines - not what you’d really call a draft.
So I need to up my game. I’ll be making heavy use of my usual prompts:
Earworms (c.f. “Why Earworms?”)
Writing prompts on social media. (More on this in a forthcoming post.)
And I’ll be looking for other means to spark my imagination via various sources of randomness. I’m not entirely sure what they’ll be, yet, but I imagine I’ll look to AI chatbots for some of these.
Sometimes inspiration comes; for other times, we need processes to spark our imagination and creativity.
If you have any thoughts about how to jump-start the creative process, or have any tried-and-true methods you use yourself, leave a comment and let’s gather a trove of thoughtful triggers.