Creative Expansion: July 2024

The month started to take on a dreamlike quality

This has been a challenging year in many ways, but when I moved into my new digs in Surrey on Canada Day, the last six months — long and dreary — started to take on a dreamlike quality, almost as if they had never happened.

I did not feel ready to dive into a ton of new projects, which should be obvious from this relatively short update, but it always seems to take some time to adapt to a new neighborhood, new home, new workflow, etc., and this move was no exception. I suppose this should be acknowledged as a form of creative expansion too, though.

Either way, I made steady progress with my projects and found a couple of new ways to expand creatively.

Here’s what I’ll be sharing in this letter:

• Creating and Sticking to a Budget
• Stretching the Outer Limits of What’s Possible with Bonus Content

Creating and Sticking to a Budget

This probably appears to fall under the category of “boring adulting stuff,” and perhaps it does. But I’m going to try really hard not to make it boring.

The big “aha” moment for me came when I started to see weekly paychecks from my full-time contract as a prompt…