One of first tasks for the Future Gold Arts was to identify our primary art form. I found it quite challenging deciding what to pick because although I love working in the creative industry I see myself in a producer role rather than creating things myself. I decided to go with playwriting in the end because I guess that’s the most creative of my skills.

The only problem is I haven’t actually written anything new myself in about a year now. I have a couple of half finished plays I need to work on but I know they need a lot of work and they’re pretty personal so I find it really hard to be subjective about them and show them to people for feedback. I guess that comes from a fear of them not being good enough, as I had really good feedback and responses to my early work while I was at university. Then coming out of university I was lucky enough to have work shown in a couple of competitions, took part in young writing courses and worked with some amazing, inspiring and supportive people. I feel like there’s a bar I’ve set for myself and people will be disappointed if it turns out I’m not actually very good. In reality this fear is just holding me back and I need to remember that writing is a learning process and you can only get better if you continue to do it. So that’s what I plan to do.

Our brief is to create something with our primary art form to promote the Cinkids programme at watershed, inspired by a secondary art form that you’ve learnt from someone else in the group. I’ve signed up to learn about Design from Zoe, and Photography and art installation from Lily and Rosanna. I’m interested in all three and think it’s a great chance to challenge myself and learn some new skills.

As I missed the first session I was also volunteered to help run a session about creative copy writing with Jenny. I’ve reviewed theatre before, and have to blog quite a bit for work but I’m not sure how qualified I am to teach others, but it will be a great learning curve and fun at least. I’m really looking forward to see some of the work that’s produced from it.