First off, my apologies for the delay. I’ve had a couple of days this week that are now in my top ten of very terrible no-good days.

However, I was inspired today by this thought:

If you are a blocked creative, the surest way to becoming unblocked is by supporting other creatives; If you are blocked, you may want to examine if you’re being unsupportive, or worse — oppressing other creatives. Are you lifting up your fellow artists? Or are you somehow keeping them down? Handing them disapproval as opposed to lifting them up.

I’m not meaning that we let work that needs improvement out into the world, but the way we provide critique and feedback is essential to not only our fellow artists but in unblocking ourselves.

Therefore, the prompt this week is to examine if you’re lifting other creatives or are you pushing them down. Don’t know how to lift up fellow artists? Here’s some ideas:  write a review, purchase a piece of art, seek out an author-published writer and purchase their work and write a review. You can also make a donation to a museum or other group that focuses and helps your fellow creatives. You could even just read another writer’s blog and comment on it. Encouraging comments can make an artist’s day.

I would like to hear back from folks on what they did to support…and what happened? Did you find yourself becoming unblocked? Did you find your creativity increasing?

And now your moment of Writing Zen:

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs.” ~John F. Kennedy.