darren r hill

the creative minimalist

  • I found a rainbow laying around on the floor so I captured it.

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  • This week’s, the journal and planner update vlog goes on a little detour. It’s been a bit of a distracting week in one way or another, so I distract myself with a little creative play. Gesso is involved as I delve into the world of Art Trading Cards and my junk journal, before getting back…

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  • A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I opened the doors and stepped out on the balcony. The view was amazing, but it was the air that took my breath away Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is all about comparison.…

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  • Planner and journal vlog update. A look into my bullet journal(s) and junk journal. I seem to have run into a problem with my set-up. Instead of capturing things in my ‘daily’ journal, I have been accruing a number of scrap pieces of paper. It feels like I am being called to an all-in-one journal……

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  • A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I squeezed, nothing. I pressed again, still nothing. Now, I was getting desperate Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is about frustration. Now you might feel there is enough frustration in your life already…

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  • Reviewing Creative Goals

    Reviewing Creative Goals

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    How have we done with our creative goals, habits and routines as the first quarter of the year passes? I confess to what I have achieved and not achieved in Q1 as I review and prepare for Q2. Creative successes and habit failures are in this week’s vlog.

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  • Creative resources and time

    Creative resources and time

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    Everywhere we look there are adverts and influencers offering stuff to make our lives perfect. I have also been seeing a lot of talk about minimising what we have and what we use in our creative lives. This week’s vlog explores this very issue.

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  • You (and me) are the barrier to creativity

    You (and me) are the barrier to creativity

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    I have discovered that the biggest barrier to creativity is myself. It might well be the same for you as well. In this week’s vlog, I look at three ways to overcome the barriers we create for ourselves.

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  • Choose your creative life

    Choose your creative life

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    What is your ideal creative life? So often reality and everyday living stop us from being creative. However, we can choose to fit in art, music and writing. In this week’s vlog, I look at the ideal vs reality of being creative.

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  • What’s the point of creating

    What’s the point of creating

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    Thus, when Darren looked at what he hath created, he thought, what’s the point and was distinctly underwhelmed. This week’s vlog is a look at how to keep going on a creative project that doesn’t sparkle. Let’s continue to create.

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  • Making Creativity Easy

    Making Creativity Easy

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    There is a way to make creativity easier, to make the creative process easy.. er…ish. Give your music, art, video, images, writing, a helping hand with this one simple tip. I’m making creativity easy in this week’s vlog, let’s create.

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