The Creative Block: Building Creative Confidence, Overcoming Writer's Block & The Art of Flowing With Creativity

In this episode of The Unwritten Aesthetic, Reese and Lauren get real about what it means to feel stuck in your creative practice. From writer’s block to painting plateaus, they unpack the frustration of creative ruts and share strategies for finding flow again.

They explore:

• How structure can both help and stifle creativity
• Why confidence in your own ideas is essential
• The tension between academic rules and authentic voice
• Using imagined audiences to unlock better writing
• Practical tools to keep the creative spark alive (journaling, speaking drafts, cutting up notes, etc.)

Whether you’re a painter, writer, poet, or creative of any kind, this conversation will remind you that blocks are part of the process—and that your ideas are worth sharing.

Welcome to The Unwritten Aesthetic, where the intellectual rigor of philosophy meets the creative pursuit of an artful life. A place for two friends to be passionate about philosophy as an artistic pursuit, ask life’s most important questions, create something we believe in, and to be two silly gooses.

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With artful Coherence,

Reese and Lauren