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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
the buzzy thoughts, that feeling of falling into love or obsession). The idea will organize coincidences and portents to tumble across your path, to keep your interest keen. You will start to notice all sorts of signs pointing you toward the idea. Everything you see and touch and do will remind you of the idea. The idea will wake you up in the
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Wants can be simple and generic (fame, freedom, wealth, not dying, make this wolf stop eating me, etc.) or complex and setting specific (earn a one million gold bounty, master my magic, take my place as the true king, destroy the One Ring, etc.).
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
I am aware this is not an especially modern or rational way of seeing things. It is decidedly unscientific. Just the other day, I heard a respected neurologist say in an interview, “The creative process may seem magical, but it is not magic.” With all due respect, I disagree. I believe the creative process is both magical and magic. Because here is
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your 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
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“art block is brain telling you to do studies”
Act I, put your characters in a tree. Act II, light the tree on fire. Act III, get your characters out of the tree.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
“creativity as a cycle between active creation and dormant rest” - emily cheeseman
Remember when I talked about how I fill the parts of my plot that I don’t know yet by asking “What comes next?” or “How did this happen?” Well, most of the time the answers to those questions come from my characters, and in a circular turn, these answers serve to develop the characters who give them.