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You've just gotta fight your way through.
Monday, October 10th, 2011 03:00 pm
This has stuck with me since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tallou shared it to Facebook about 2 weeks ago:
Nicely typeset here, if you can access it: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/293156_10150290719459626_795709625_7387707_7099296_n.jpg
That said, I think I might sign up for a writing class. Yes, I know you don't need to pay someone to jump-start your writing process, but I feel like some structured guidance would help me at this point in my creative life, and that's worth investing in.
No news on any other fronts at present. Just lots of emotional Sturm und Drang whose mere reflection is by turns producing in me black despair, blank exhaustion, marble resignation, and red-raging fury. (Perhaps instead I am meant to take up painting, or sculpture.) My assigned part in this drama seems to consist mostly of waiting it out to see where I am at the end. Please send healing vibes, if you have them. And maybe cookies, kthx.
tallou shared it to Facebook about 2 weeks ago:“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal, and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”From this video segment: http://youtu.be/BI23U7U2aUY
― Ira Glass
Nicely typeset here, if you can access it: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/293156_10150290719459626_795709625_7387707_7099296_n.jpg
That said, I think I might sign up for a writing class. Yes, I know you don't need to pay someone to jump-start your writing process, but I feel like some structured guidance would help me at this point in my creative life, and that's worth investing in.
No news on any other fronts at present. Just lots of emotional Sturm und Drang whose mere reflection is by turns producing in me black despair, blank exhaustion, marble resignation, and red-raging fury. (Perhaps instead I am meant to take up painting, or sculpture.) My assigned part in this drama seems to consist mostly of waiting it out to see where I am at the end. Please send healing vibes, if you have them. And maybe cookies, kthx.
