I love drawing. At times I draw every day, and for the past 4-5 years drawing has been part of my practice as a fiction writer. It may not be immediately connected, but when I draw, I get in touch with a very pure form of creativity inside me, which is not as spontaneous when I write, because writing is just a much more structured form of expression, but when I am in regular contact with that part of myself, I can also better include it in my texts. For me, this is where I find my flow and my poetry. I also know from neuroscience that things are connected, so it's really not that strange.
I usually sit on the floor when I draw. I listen to music and I draw quickly without thinking about what I'm drawing. For many years I have drawn some rather naive, figurative drawings of people and animals, but I found that I find this creative well inside more easily when I draw non-figurative and abstract drawings, and when I draw as fast as I can. It is in many ways like automatic writing, which I also use in the same way. I write three pages of automatic writing every morning before I get up. I don't use it for anything. I don't even read it. It's like a form of meditation or a place where I can reflect freely in writing. A creative and mental space where I don't have to fear judgement or ambition.
I know from my friends who also write that we have very different ways of working as writers, but for me it works like this. There is a whole lot of stuff going on outside of the actual texts I work on. There's that novel or short story I might be working on that is going to be published and that the world gets to read, but in order for that text to manifest I have to do all the other things too. Automatic writing, drawing, reading random paragraphs in random books, flipping through, reading somewhere else, listening to audio books, reading stuff aloud, having friends read my own texts aloud to me. Meditating, going for long walks in the forest, going to museums. Flipping through art books. It is all part of my work to create the finished texts that the world gets to see.
On this page you can see some of my drawings, and you can also buy them if you like them and if you want to support my writings financially. Then I'll sign them and mail them to you. I have 'sliding-scale' prices so you can decide for yourself how much you can afford and want to pay.