my mother and i would have serene dreams tea together every night before i went back to school. now we do it over facetime but it's really nice to have time to just sit down with someone you love and talk with them
i start a lot of my projects by researching things related to what i'm working on. just google your topic and look at articles (jstor is a great place to find scholarly stuff)π’ or if you're doing film ubu web is a lovely place to find inspiration! i'm also a big fan of internet archive because there's all sorts of crazy random stuff on there. i find that researching helps me solidify my ideasπ