2025 Datebook Planner for Artists, Writers, Creatives
Written and Designed for the Artist in You
We mostly keep track of appointments in our phone calendars these days. This datebook planner is intended as a companion for creative people to care for their inner artist and keep track of projects and career goals. It includes food for thought, simple self-care tools, and insightful quotes. A healthy boundaries “cheat sheet” is on the back cover as gentle reminders to support your equilibrium and wellbeing throughout the year.
NOTE: Unlike most calendars, the 2025 Datebook Planners for Artists, Writers, Creatives include the solstices, equinoxes, and World Peace Day.
Accountability
You can use the weekly calendar in the traditional way and/or to record plans for projects – as a way to be accountable to yourself. Think through and then schedule the steps you need to complete a goal or project, ideally with a deadline attached (subject to change, if needed.) If you tend to be over-ambitious, this process can help you become more realistic in setting goals and deadlines. If you use it regularly, this planner will also become an interesting record of your plans and progress over the year.
Self-Appreciation and Goals Accomplished
We tend to skip over large and small achievements without even a pause to acknowledge that we just completed a goal or task. That’s why there’s a “Self-Appreciation and Goals Accomplished” section at the end of each week; it’s a reminder to record whatever small, medium and large milestones you reach, and to celebrate your wins.
Excerpt: Get Your Groove Back
FIRST SPARK
Paraphrasing screenwriter and Now Write! Screenwriting contributor, Peter Myers, when you feel stuck or like you’ve lost interest in a project, revisit the very first idea or inspiration that sparked your interest in the first place. It may be an intriguing historical fact, a color combination, the first time you played a new instrument, whatever. If you can get re-connected to that first spark of interest, it can re-invigorate your creative energy and enthusiasm for the project at hand.
CREATIVITY AS PLAY
Do something that is not your main area of expertise, something you’re not “supposed” to be good at. Be like a child and do or make something without being neat or clean, or concerned about results or product – just for the fun of it.
Doodle, fingerpaint, draw an imaginary animal, make a collage (not a vision board,) make up a silly Haiku or song, create a poem or nonsensical statement out of refrigerator magnets, join a drum circle or take a salsa dance class, whatever strikes your fancy!
Playing in other fields just for the fun of it, purely as a process, can refresh your mind and reconnect you with your own creativity. It also reminds you what it feels like to be present and in the flow, without focusing on the past or future.
Just let go and have fun. Then, when you’re up for it, see if you can bring that relaxed creative attitude to the main task at hand – it may happen even without thinking about it.
A Thoughful Gift for Yourself or Someone Else
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