What would you explore if you did not need to be good at it?

It’s writing hour as usual today at 9am. (Link below)

Today’s writing Prompt: When did you last feel full of ideas, and what had you been doing beforehand?

And don’t forget, writing Rehab call on today 5 August at 7pm, where we will explore what fills your creative well and how to make more space for it.

This is a live coaching call. It’s not recorded, it’s just turning up and I will facilitate some coaching to fire up creativity.

These are some of the questions we will be discussing. Do subscribe and come along.

Our theme this month is - how to make space to be creative.

• When do you feel most creatively alive?

• What have you read, watched, heard or seen recently that has stayed with you?

• Which places seem to refill the ‘creative well’ almost without effort?

• What are you curious about at the moment, even if it appears completely impractical?

• What did you love making, collecting or imagining as a child?

• What have you stopped doing that once brought you pleasure?

• Who makes you feel more creative simply by being around them?

• What currently drains your imagination or leaves you feeling flat?

• What are you consuming too much of, and what are you not consuming enough of?

• Which small details have been catching your attention lately?

• What idea, image, sentence or subject keeps returning to you?

• What would you explore if you did not need to be good at it?

• What would you create if nobody ever saw it?

• Where have usefulness, productivity or ambition begun to crowd out play?

• What does your creativity need from you now: discipline, freedom, rest, courage, privacy or company?

• What would a nourishing creative space look like for you this week?

• Which hour of your week could you protect as creative space?

• What might you need to stop doing to make that space possible?

• What is one small creative act you could complete in the next 24 hours?

• Finish this sentence without overthinking it: My creativity is asking me to…

Want to create a writing practice? Come join us at Heart Leap.

If you’ve been meaning to write — your journal, your Substack, your book, your Big Beautiful Thing — but somehow always end up reorganising the fridge instead… welcome home.

At Heart Leap, I host four writing hours a week Monday to Thursday from 9–10am GMT. We chat for five minutes at the start, five at the end, and the rest of the time we simply write together. No pressure or performance, just a calm, friendly corner of the internet where pages get filled and ideas stop hiding.

If you need accountability, a regular rhythm, or a space where other writers are also muttering “why is this so hard?”, you’ll be in excellent company.

We also have a Writing Rehab class on the first Wednesday of the month (Wed 5th August) and we run the 12 week Artist’s Way once a year (we start 4th September 2026).

If you want 2026 to be the year your writing life finally feels supported, fun and alive, subscribe for £7 a month and come write with us.

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