The Reservoir Method
Part 1: Collecting Raindrops
Find your Seed in 15 minutes
Step 1 — Absorb (5 minutes)
Pick a film, song, book, or artwork you love.
Write down three things you like about it — anything from a phrase, a feeling, to a technique.
Don’t analyse. Just notice what makes you curious.
Step 2 — Release (5 minutes)
Choose one image or word from your notes.
Set a timer. Free write for five minutes.
No editing. Just spill.
Step 3 — Distill (5 minutes)
Read it back.
Highlight anything that hits your emotions.
Start your creative work today from that spark.
Why it works
We’re brutal with our own ideas but generous with the work we admire.
So we begin there.
When you start from what inspires you, the unconscious opens.
Like opening the dam to your reservoir.
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