Creative chaos doesn't pay the mortgage

but it is exciting.

I’m creatively discombobulated. I know it’s normal and I know eventually it will pass and clarity will resume, but for now I find myself flitting from one thing to another.

My problem is that I can’t pin myself down to one art form. Maybe I don’t need to, but even if that is true, I need to be able to navigate my way through the projects I’m working on and find ways to monetise some of them as unfortunately the mortgage doesn’t get paid by magic. One can dream.

An example. On Monday night I sat down to watch an online workshop recording. It was on the subject of growing email lists for interior designers. Although I have this Substack, which does of course have an email list, I haven’t done the same specifically for my interior design work and I can absolutely see the benefit.

It was a very helpful workshop, and I’ve already started to put into action some of the suggestions from it in order to build my design work further. That’s one of the creative things I want to be spending my time doing: interior design. I spend half of my week doing it and I am earning a small amount from it right now, but ideally it would continue to steadily grow until it was a more reliable income stream. There’s a new (and constantly evolving) email form on my website - you can check it out here.

Also on Monday night, I wanted to write a Substack post. My husband was doing his wine course, and I had thought that the two and a half hours that he was busy would be the perfect amount of time to write a Substack post. It would have been had I not been distracted by the email marketing workshop. I wrote nothing.