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Your life is finite, and you should make your art. Things will get in the way and you should still make your art. Return to your art, over and over again. You will find clarity and answers as you feed this vital part of yourself. As you build and maintain a consistent practice, you will find the other parts of living a modern life seem more
... See moreBeth Pickens • Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the non-productive ones. Beverly Pepper
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
On bad days, when I felt no inspiration at all, I would set the kitchen timer for thirty minutes and make myself sit there and scribble something, anything. I had read an interview with John Updike where he said that some of the best novels you’ve ever read were written in an hour a day; I figured I could always carve out at least thirty minutes
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I was trying to get up and go to my desk for my morning writing session and struggling with the idea of it. I realised I was actually just exhausted and needed to nap and doze in bed for a while. It wasn’t the idea of writing that I felt resistance to, it was that I had no energy to get up and do it.
I don’t want to feel like I’m locked in an
... See more519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD
podcasts.apple.comdefined strategy, unlimited tactics - defining a Project destination and then improvising your way there
“Imagination is story, story is plot, plot is plan, imagination is planning. The brain evolved imagination in order to make plans.” Anger and anxiety are threat responses, our brain wants to deal with the threat through planning, we have to use our imagination. Kids don’t have a lot of anxiety or anger because when they have a threat response, they imagine something.”
Hope requires a doable plan - when hope is gone it’s time to imagine some new possibilities.
imagination as a tool - in magick, not is it true but is it useful?
Bleed on that page in a way that makes you vulnerable.
Chuck Wendig • Revenge of the Penmonkey
your head. A dunce cap full of stinky bowel-scorpions. Thing is, I find that if I preset my brain like some kind of storytelling slow-cooker, I can wake up without that fear threatening to suck my heart outta my nether-holes. It's like this: before bed, I take a handful of moments to think about the next day's work -- where are the characters, what
... See moreChuck Wendig • Revenge of the Penmonkey
I'm just saying, do you feel your heart palpitating? Do you feel suddenly overcome by uninvited worry and embarrassment? Shhh. Shhhh. Realize that this doesn't matter. None of this matters. You're not saving the world. You're just telling stories. That's