How to stay in love with your creative practice

Lauren Ellis
9 min readMar 10, 2022

Whether you paint, write, design, sew or code, it can be tricky to maintain motivation, no matter how much you adore it. While there are a million and one blogs, books and podcasts about finding fresh ideas, what creatives speak about less is falling out of love with their practice altogether.

Beyond the usual writer’s block or just plain despondency, sometimes we lose more than our energy and enthusiasm. A few days off turns into weeks, months or even years. Inspiration doesn’t just run dry — it disappears altogether. Leaving us feeling bereft…

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Lauren Ellis

Writer, artist and occasional poet. Lover of philosophy, folklore, history + curiosities. UX writer by day. Writing a book about death by night.