Bom dia and welcome to my new blog/alt account!
From now on, this will be the place where I will shamelessly write about creativity and the creative process, whenever I feel like it.
I have sensed, for a long time, that my main blog is too random and inconsistent, content wise.
And, more importantly, I have often felt that I should have an outlet for my creative stuff only.
After 7 years of blogging, it was about time for me to start another account to focus on exactly that.
My main motivation is to get all of this creative talk out of my system. Inspiring others would be an added bonus.
I also plan to share less ( frequently ) on my main blog: 
THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY,
a fellow creative – who is Portuguese and lives in my area – walked into the local bar at the exact moment when I was about to leave.
Instead of greeting him and heading out, I decided to offer him a drink ( he asked for a coffee ) and to order a water with bubbles for myself, so we had the opportunity to chat a bit.
He and I usually have interesting conversations.
The guy asked how I was doing and, him being a creative, I couldn’t help but talk about my current book project – The Monster of Disco and the Other Monsters - without being specific or talking about the theme of the project.
No, I mainly shared the honest truth with him:
That I was going through a 'less creative' phase, as of late, a bit of a struggle.
That I probably needed to do some traveling, change my perspective, to get back into it.
After a while, he asked me, basically, if I understand my own creative process?
And I, in return, explained to him that that my creative process makes no sense. And that I know, by now, that I can’t force it. Or, to rephrase that, I can but it won’t lead to the desired result. Forced writing or creating is not my style. I need to accept – which can still be difficult – that this is how my creativity works. That it can feel like I am stuck, for months – and can make me go in circles and on many detours – before it hits me, out of nowhere, when I am least expecting it like a boxer would uppercut another boxer when the latter is most tired and loses focus momentarily.
Okay, I didn't use the above metaphor, when I talked to him, but it's fair to say that even after decades of being creative, I still don't understand my creative process and that is totally fine by me ( although it can be frustrating at times ). Now I think of it, this is what I call real creativity. There is no understandable process behind it. It can not be divided in clear step. It's not science. It's more like magick. My creative process keeps surprising me and I will never fully fathom it and that's precisely what makes it so very exciting.✨
