Creative ideas are absolutely crucial for the creative artist.

Creative ideas are as essential for all of us who create as blood is to the human heart, fuel is to the motor car, and water is to the great rivers of the earth.

Without ideas there is no creativity. To create we must have a starting point of some kind - a tiny sketch, a quirky phrase, a name for a character, an insistent melody, an evocative image.

And so as creative people we spend a great deal of time trying to find ways to have more ideas we can then evolve and mould and shape into beautiful creative expressions of ourselves.

But what about the other end of the spectrum? What about when we have TOO MANY ideas?

Is that possible, to have too many ideas?

Well no, not if you’re able to collect them up, store them, and use them when the time is right.

But yes you CAN have too many ideas if it’s this surplus of ideas that’s stopping you from focusing on picking one and just creating.

So what can you do if you feel overloaded with too many ideas?

How do you pick the RIGHT creative idea to begin working on?

How can you be sure if you choose one and start exploring it, that you won’t be backed into a creative cul-de-sac within a couple of days?

The answer? There is no “right” idea to start on. The power, the secret, the reward of creativity comes with choosing one and just starting.

You could spend the next decade trying to pick the perfect idea to expand upon for your next novel, or tapestry, or willow structure. And never actually get around to choosing one and creating.

Or, you could spend the next decade picking creative ideas, pursuing them headlong with all the creative energy and intention you can possibly summon and see where they lead you.

Yes, some will become dead ends. Maybe the majority. But some will become wonderful creations, of the kind you couldn’t have imagined they’d become when you started.

How would you have ever got to this point if you hadn’t chosen an idea and given your best? Quite simply you wouldn’t have. You’d still be sat here in the same place, with the same level of experience, a decade older, still deliberating over which idea to begin.

You know which option’s best for you, so take it today.

Pick ONE idea and get going, start creating, have fun and see where it can take you…

There really is no other way...