IDEA CAMP ⛺️
6 weeks of making more while doing less and actually having fun (and s’mores!)
Do you ever feel like…
🔬 You’re humming and hawing over HOW to start!
🌱 You’ve got ideas, but having a nervy b about joe schmoe from high school thinking your latest Substack essay is “cringe”.
🎺 you’re “supposed” to have an action plan to write the magnum opus, but you're twiddling your thumbs trying to figure out how you’re spending the 45 minutes of free time you actually have.
🏋️♂️ You filmed the vlog, pulled the notes, but you’re scared of working hard on YT video to only get 6 views.
🐛 Your “lack of structure” (derogatory) or prompting makes the “idea phase” > “book in hand” feel like a massive chasm to leap.
⚡️You’re having 58,282 great ideas before you’ve hit the “brew” button on the coffee machine each morning. But, you’re second guessing your own creative genius before you even give those ideas a chance to come to life.
👼 You’re up late googling “perfect podcasting mic” that will surely grant you much success, and make your skin perfect too.
👻 Your half read copy of The Artist Way that you’re using as nightstand alternative is haunting you in your sleep, like you can HEAR mama Julia Cameron laughing at you. Surely you’re just creatively “blocked”?
🔬 Researching and overanalyzing the “best way” to start your next project and getting stuck in analysis paralysis – so you…don’t start (or finish).
IDEA CAMP
Your idea being IN the world is IMPORTANT, NEEDED, AND VALUABLE. You deserve to give yourself 1. time 2. space and 3. a big ole break to make it happen.
Here is the secret big daddy capitalism doesn’t want you to know. That doing LESS (in literally every sense) = your big idea in the world. Hyper vigilant perfection mode probably served you at SOME POINT IN YOUR LIFE, we have no doubt in that. It probably made you the boundary queen hottie you are today.
But also, that part of you has no business finishing your magnum opus, and tbh it’s stopping you from starting. Thinking about how/what it is that you need to create is one part of the process, but stepping into thinking mode quicksand is self induced torture wrapped in a costume of “caring”. Your story deserves to be told, your art deserves to be made, but getting caught in the HOW, HOW, HOW of it keeps us in analysis paralysis, telling our brains we are not to be trusted. Your creativity knows otherwise.
You deserve to…
✏️ Get paid to write
💰 Get funding for your project
🖼️ Hang your work on the wall
📕 Hold your book in your hands
🎭 Book the role
🌱 To be SEEN for the beautiful artist you are!
Remember little artist you going outside to explore? Remember camp as a kid? Your sand art drawings, or the thrown together production of Peter Pan with your friends? Your creativity flew out of you! Unstoppable, easy, free, uninhibited! Let’s get back to that.
IDEA CAMP
July 6th - Aug 15th
ACTIVITIES ZONE 🛶😎✂️:
July 6th - Aug 15th
Kick off call // July 6th 12pm EST
Bi- Weekly zoom sessions for co-working + creative advising with P + J.
Weekly assignments delivered in your inbox tailored to your medium to actually move the needles
Chat community to create surrounded by a bunch of brilliant weirdo artists and multi-hyphen hotties making TOGETHER
Feedback portal to submit weekly assignments AND get feedback from P+ J!
PLUS! Little Treat Theory ™️ is IN EFFECT at Idea Camp.
Fun and games to trick your cute brain into making!
Bingo cards!
Stickers!
Gold Stars!
CASH MONEY! (We are literally going to pay you to make your art.)
LITTLE TREAT THEORY IS IN EFFECT!
We know showing up to your idea is hard work, and as an autistic artist myself (phoebe!), I know sometimes we need a little more than pure raw doggin’ our desires and emotions to compel our beautiful mind to…do stuff.
During Idea Camp we have fun, games, gold stars, and cash money to nudge that internal motivation (your ideas!!) with an external reward (the joy of getting paid to write).
If you turn in your work at the end of Idea Camp (no matter what state of “done” it is) we will buy you and a friend a coffee on us!
after 6 weeks you’ll pack your camp bag with….
❤️ An understanding of your unique creative process!
❤️ A production strategy so you can GET THE THING MADE.
❤️ A path to follow so you know where TF to go after you’ve had an idea.
❤️ A suite of notion templates + systems to reuse EVERY TIME YOU HAVE SAID OLE BRILLIANT IDEA!
❤️ Your *insert big idea DONE to hit the ground running
AFTER YOU HIT BUY
YOU’LL GET ACCESS TO…
Our coveted Project Planner Notion 💆🏻♀️
Weekly assignments to move the needle on your next project.
we write prompts + assignments specifically for your project!
Chat community (hosted on Substack) to get the feels + cheerleading from other artists who get it!
Unlimited feedback portal from P + J during out time together.
Fun + Games and prizes to be won, simply by just making your art!
When you turn in your work at the end of idea camp (no matter what state of “done” it is) we will buy you and a friend a coffee, on us!
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Here is the thing. We fundamentally believe we are all artists. Like if you work at a big glossy building in a grey suit, you are an artist. If that is a title you don’t wanna claim yet, that’s not our business.
BUT if you’re actually saying:
“I have an office job that isn’t creative!”
“I don’t make money selling my art.”
“I never wanna sell my art!”
“I am not a conventional “creative” person.”
We are so excited and ready to work with you! If you have a little spark inside you to create something and usher it into this world, you my friend, are an artist.
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YOU bet your sweet butt there will be! Recordings will be sent out 24ish hours after (we are human women, not robots).
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If you are not in a place to be moving quickly, make decisions or are currently taking another course we think Idea Camp isn’t for you right now.
We will spend a lot of time making, and that means creating the space to make moves. If that doesn’t sit right with your nervous system right now, or isn’t a resounding hell yah, we will see you at camp next year!
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There's two parts (well honestly tbh more but this is a sales page so I'll keep it snappy!).
Like I am the patron saint of thinking I can become a candle maker, going out to the store and buying all of the supplies to make candles and then stuff all of those supplies into a closet to never see the light of day again. But, what would happen if I let it simmer, let it cook for like .5 seconds?
And the other part of this is do you trust yourself enough to know you're ideas are gonna be there for you when you are ready for them? And can we practise that self trust?
During Idea Camp we’re gonna choose one idea together, we’re gonna use this time as a practise in focusing in one thing at a time. Idea Camp is time to experiment, and resist the urge to ditch the thing when it gets “boring” and head on over to the bright and shiny thing popping up.
During Idea Camp you will be making alongside other creatives (and us!) so you will feel supported, even when it feels sticky and hard. Start to finish.
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