Below is a great article from Brain Pickings reviewing a book on productivity
for creative types. The key point is, “don’t wait for your muse to show up!” If
you want to make money off your artistic pursuits, you cannot wait around for
inspiration to strike. It will never be the ideal time to write your next novel
or finish the one you’re working on. You have to force yourself to sit down and
write something.
I was recently finishing up a short film and we had a
screening coming up in about 12 hours but we weren’t finished with
post-production. My composer was stuck on the final scene. Nothing he tried
seemed to be working and he kept getting more and more frustrated. But he stuck
with it. He kept making music until he found something that worked. It wasn’t a
light bulb moment or a case of sifting the Internet and taking a stroll until
something hit him. It was simply working through the problem, approaching it
from angle after angle and not stopping till he found a fit. That kind of grit
is what separates those that are successful and create engaging work from those
that remain mere hobbyists.
I have this romantic notion that I keep coming back to, that
our minds are constantly operating on a higher level of understanding than we
are ever consciously aware of. I believe that creative insights, truly
meaningful and original breakthroughs, come from breaking through that wall of
consciousness and into that level of understanding, into our own thoughts. But
you can’t get there through pedestrian observation; you have to hammer at it,
work for it, and dig into the problem. You have to be your own muse.
Give the article a read, it makes some great points.
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