In Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way (which I love), she endorses the practice of writing three pages in your journal every morning.
In a Slack channel this week, a member was interested in becoming a better writer. So they were looking at buying into a workshop or cohort where you write everyday.
When the pandemic hit, I finally started getting up in the morning at 5:30 am and writing/being creative for 2 hours.
Then, things fell apart.
That always seems to happen: Things. They fall apart.
Whenever I get into a groove, the world turns in on itself, and I need to find another way of doing things.
My entire life, I’ve been falling in and out of the “perfect creative practice.” It’s really annoying. But that’s also how I succeed at being creative.
In her book of essays "This is the Story of a Happy Marriage,” Ann Patchett who is an accomplished writer admits that she fails at writing daily, too. So she says that’s when she tries to just show up. She’ll even just sit at her desk for at least an hour and do nothing. Because THEN something shows up.
That’s where I’m at right now.
Here I am! Right now: Writing!