Have you ever asked your intuition to help you creatively?!

Dear Creative,

it was Storytelling evening last night again.

For now, it’s not so much the 10 min on stage that have the biggest impact on me but it’s the whole creative process that takes place beforehand - for those 10 min to even exist - that fascinates me.

Those 10 min that take hours of preparation and go by like lightning while being delivered.

Maybe that’s flow?! When time gets distorted and you are not thinking about what you are going to eat for dinner or anything else and only focus on what you are actually doing. I don’t find that kind of presence in many other things. I think only freediving and great sex, so only freediving at the moment.

But more on that once I get more stage experience to fully understand and express what happens. So expect a blogpost in 10 years or so!

Let’s get back to the hours of preparation for now and what I know about.

Last time I participated to the Storytelling evening I was on holiday in Greece for the prep time so I had all the time and energy in the world! This time on the other hand, I had a very busy week at work the week prior and I couldn’t get myself to sit down to craft a story. Most of it was already written of course but there was a lot of editing that needed to be done and I had no clue what it was I really wanted to share from all the dating stories I had amassed throughout Summer. I still needed an angle.

Luckily I had 2 full days off just before the Storytelling evening so I knew I would have time to fully dive in.

I worked on the story for 2 days straight, only leaving the house to go to the Yoga Studio. I had zero appointments, zero housework. It was just creative work. Writing, editing, rehearsing. Coming up with a dozen other ideas in the process it was amazing. Having a deadline really gave me a taste of what it could taste like to work creatively for a living. Usually I take my time to edit and release whatever I’m working on. Doing it a little bit here and there when I have time. But that needed all my focus. That needed me to stop doom scrolling and just write, edit, rehearse, rewrite and apparently listen to my intuition - more about that in a bit.

2 nights before the Storytelling evening, I did that thing I had never done in the past. Before I went to bed, I asked my intuition: what’s my angle?! Hoping to get an answer in my dream.

The answer didn’t come in my dream, it came right after I asked the question, as an intuitive nudge, that I, of course dismissed because I immediately thought: no I can’t tell that story it’s too cringe.

So the next day I spent the whole day trying to find an angle for what I had already written and it was soooo hard! I had found a great ending, a great beginning but no middle. I still didn’t know what it was I really wanted to share. At midnight I realised I had written a Ted Talk instead of a Story and so I re-wrote the whole thing because I didn’t want to be banned from Storytelling evening! And guess what I end up writing?!

The story my intuition recommended me to write the night before of course!!!!

And let me tell you, writing that story was so much more fun than writing the Ted Talk! All that struggle that I had experienced the day before had vanished! I had a tight deadline so I still had to turbo write, edit & rehearse but the process was so fun!

It was a great learning to see how things can start to flow once I start listening and trusting my intuition! Even with a delay, it’s still worth it!

Have you ever tried asking your intuition for creative help? Will you try next time you can’t find a middle to your story?

I certainly hope that I will remember to do so!