Starting a New Year: Setting Creativity Goals

About this episode

Joy and Teresa discuss setting annual creative goals and share their personal ambitions for the year ahead.

Joy and Teresa walk through the process for setting annual creative goals and lay out what they each hope to achieve in the coming year. From creating a collection of paintings, to writing a poem a month, producing a newsletter and improving photography, this year’s goals are ambitious and not without revenue goals and software tools to help achieve them. Teresa has gone down the rabbit hole of creating miniature crime scenes through craft, and Joy is recommending a new literary podcast that she thinks is intended for men. The Gen X discussion centers on school cafeteria food growing up. Any wax beans and graham crackers with pink frosting fans out there? ~Show Links and References~ The Trello App Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Old School with Shiloh Brooks (Book Podcast) Pizza Day Secret Recipe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artsytypes.substack.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Joy, Teresa

Topics covered

• creativity goals
• art
• writing
• photography
• Gen X nostalgia

Keywords

• miniature crime scenes
• literary podcast
• school cafeteria food

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Trello App

Books & works: The Trello App Murder Is Her Hobby

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