If you want to create a lot of anything, you need to start frequently and finish regularly. With creative endeavors, this seems even more true. Achieving your vision might be challenging and you need to allow for missing the mark on some attempts.

Many of the photos I make do not turn out as well as I’d hoped. My key to making a lot of good pictures is to make way more pictures than I need. When I fail in my efforts, I need to think about why and what I should do differently. The more often you try, fail and learn, the better you get and more successes you will have.

Publishing a new blog post 6 or 7 times per week means I need a lot of ideas. To keep momentum, I jot down potential ideas whenever they come to mind. When things are going well, I have a slew of ideas and at least 3 or 4 posts in progress so I can choose which I’m ready to finish. If the tide of creativity is ebbing and I have less in process, finishing a post can be a struggle.

How often do you work on your creative outlets and what do you do to keep moving forward?