Showing up is half the battle
Feb. 22nd, 2011 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laura_seabrookFinally got to read chapter 10 of Artist's Way. A passage really got to me. It reads:
Procrastination has been my enemy in this, because...
| Julia Cameron, on page 175 wrote: |
| Be willing to paint or write badly while your ego yelps resistance. Your bad writing may be the syntactical breakdown necessary for a shift in your style. Your lousy painting may be pointing you in a new direction. Art needs time to incubate, to sprawl a little, to be ungainly and misshapen and finally emerge as itself. The ego hates this fact. The ego wants instant gratification and the addictive hit of an acknowledged win. This need to win -- now! -- is a need to win approval from others. As an antidote, we must learn to approve of ourselves. Showing up for the work is the win that matters. (my emphasis) |
...I fail to show up! Far better to do my flawed art and writing, than not at all.
How about you?
