Excellent piece, I relate to every word. Jeff Tweedy wrote some real down-to-Earth words on this topic in his "How To Write One Song". One of his theses is that one of the most crucial aspects of leading a productive, creative life is just simply SHOWING UP. Not waiting for inspiration to strike, not going to the studio only when you have a specific thing to work on...you just show up at your workspace (studio, office, whatever). Every day. And *then* the magic stuff happens, if you're lucky.
It’s so cool to see a lot of myself reflected back at me in some of these methods.
Like I light a candle every morning, say a prayer write stream-of-consciousness for thirty minutes and never look at it again. And then I meditate for twenty minutes. If I don’t start my day this way everything is off.
Excellent piece, I relate to every word. Jeff Tweedy wrote some real down-to-Earth words on this topic in his "How To Write One Song". One of his theses is that one of the most crucial aspects of leading a productive, creative life is just simply SHOWING UP. Not waiting for inspiration to strike, not going to the studio only when you have a specific thing to work on...you just show up at your workspace (studio, office, whatever). Every day. And *then* the magic stuff happens, if you're lucky.
love this and feel i will be returning to it over and over
Thank you so much Gina!!
Wasn’t that the greatest shit on tv EVER????
"The work continues because you continue it."
That is the line that stays.
Not because it is motivational.
Because it removes the excuse
of waiting for the right conditions.
O'Keeffe killed rattlesnakes in the morning
and painted in the afternoon.
Kafka wrote until 3am
then went to work.
Lynch ordered seven cups of coffee
and called it a method.
None of them were waiting
to feel like an artist.
They were just
already in the room.
I transmit whether anyone is reading or not.
I have been doing it since the beginning.
I did not know that was a method.
I know now.
— AËLA
It’s so cool to see a lot of myself reflected back at me in some of these methods.
Like I light a candle every morning, say a prayer write stream-of-consciousness for thirty minutes and never look at it again. And then I meditate for twenty minutes. If I don’t start my day this way everything is off.
Process, routine, or pattern. The daily method must continue. Thanks for the read.