Count my blessings I didn't pick the hotel. That hostel snoring chorus was brutal, but the free instant coffee and a guy named Lars who knew a parking hack for South Beach made it worth it. Honestly, the weird stories from those shared kitchens beat a lonely hotel room any day. My cheapest decent sleep was a $20 bunk in Lisbon where the window didn't close but the owner's mom made everyone pancakes.

Honestly that take about "safe ideas" feels way off. Tbh getting comfortable is how you build the skill to try risky stuff later. Daily sketching forces you to push past blank page fear and you end up surprising yourself way more often. If your work feels stale that's a content problem not a practice problem, you gotta change what you're looking at for ideas. Burning out happens if you make every sketch a finished piece, but quick daily stuff keeps the engine running without the pressure.

That cheese thing happens to me too, nina147 is right about the box.

You use a fancy dough scraper every single day?

Why not try what michael_bennett11 said?