I invested quite a bit of time learning more about data science and searching for jobs in 2024. As I move into the next year, I would like to focus on the development of my creative abilities. Currently, I feel limited by mediums of expression. I only know how to write. And within writing, there are a ton of things I want to improve. I want to enhance my copywriting skills and write SEO-optimized content. More than that, I want to spend more time writing. Practice is what will take my writing to the next level, combined with studying others’ writing, copywriting, and content marketing.
I also want to become regular in documenting my thoughts, my days, and my memories of beautiful people in my life. Because words flow naturally to me at this point, the barrier of thinking the right words and the right structure is quite less. However, words seem insufficient at times when I want to go beyond letters and use other mediums to capture memories and express myself.
I want to expand the medium beyond writing. One of my next goals is to learn video making and editing. I have always been interested in visual storytelling but I have been too afraid to just pick up the camera and start recording. There are so many memories that I want to go back but I don’t have video footage. People around me are getting old and apart, and I want to keep them close.
Apart from shooting videos, I am also interested in learning animation. I recently enrolled in Nathaniel Drew’s frame-by-frame course which has both components and I am excited to dive deeper into the tutorials and get some hands-on practice.
Another medium that I would like to dip my hands in is painting, specifically watercolors. I have always dreamt of having the ability to sit at some nice place and sketch it on my white pad. I have seen many people do it and it makes me want to learn it properly. I bought a course in the middle of this year but life kept happening and I could never even start it. I have all the painting supplies but didn’t get much time to practice or learn.
On top of all this, I think I want to give myself permission to be creative. To make mistakes. I can be very hard on myself and leave no room for starting scrappy. I want my first output the best there is. I want to approach learning these new things from a new perspective. I want to let myself be bad and keep practicing till I improve.