A regular piece of advice for creatives at conferences is to embrace a personal challenge, keep the juices flowing via a project you can revisit with some degree of discipline.
Des McAllister’s approach to this is to collect quotes which he then draws in charcoal.
Including “a wacky psychoanalyst, a female anarchist and Nietzsche”, McAllister has used Blurb, the self-publishing platform, to showcase and sell his creations.