Ines Häufler in Vienna, Austria has decided to simply Be Creative. She explains, "As a kid I have been drawing, painting, making crafty things and inventing stories all the time. Also I always liked taking pictures. When I grew up I forgot about it. Now everything is coming back."...
Why did you decide to do this project? After some pretty intense years as a freelance script consultant I realized that I am constantly nurturing the creativity of others (scriptwriters in my case) but that I totally neglected my own original creative work. So my one and only New Year's resolution was: I am going to make something creative every day and post it on my website.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? It had and has a huge impact on my life. While I still love working as a script consultant it is not the most important thing in my life any more. It is interesting how easy it was to make room for my creative project every day - maybe because I am really excited about it.
Also I realized after some time that storytelling is not only an important part of my work, but also of my personality because all of a sudden characters popped up and started to have little adventures, for example a plasticine figure called Anouk. She has developed a life of her own and is featured at least once a week.
In the last weeks creative collaborations with friends also started to play a bigger role - I organized a reading, have been invited to the studio of some artist friends to present my project and did an impromptu photo shoot with a friend of mine who is an actor. For the future I hope there will be more collaborative projects, and I also want to start a bigger project with Anouk's adventures.
This project adds something very important to my life that I really missed during the last years. And I am still very curious where my next idea will lead me.
See all of Ines' creative creations HERE.
Why did you decide to do this project? After some pretty intense years as a freelance script consultant I realized that I am constantly nurturing the creativity of others (scriptwriters in my case) but that I totally neglected my own original creative work. So my one and only New Year's resolution was: I am going to make something creative every day and post it on my website.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? It had and has a huge impact on my life. While I still love working as a script consultant it is not the most important thing in my life any more. It is interesting how easy it was to make room for my creative project every day - maybe because I am really excited about it.
Also I realized after some time that storytelling is not only an important part of my work, but also of my personality because all of a sudden characters popped up and started to have little adventures, for example a plasticine figure called Anouk. She has developed a life of her own and is featured at least once a week.
In the last weeks creative collaborations with friends also started to play a bigger role - I organized a reading, have been invited to the studio of some artist friends to present my project and did an impromptu photo shoot with a friend of mine who is an actor. For the future I hope there will be more collaborative projects, and I also want to start a bigger project with Anouk's adventures.
This project adds something very important to my life that I really missed during the last years. And I am still very curious where my next idea will lead me.
See all of Ines' creative creations HERE.
Thanks for featuring my project, Noah!
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