Thank you for this. I let my own artistic business fall by the wayside a few years ago in service of a family business for the ‘greater good’. I now find myself unemployed as that business has been sold. I grieve the time I could have spent on my craft, how much further along I could have been, the person I could be right now had I chosen myself. I find myself resisting the work now, feeling like tomorrow I will feel better, that I will be more ready. This article helps. Thankyou.
Thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts.
I can understand grieving the years you might have spent developing your own work, especially when you can imagine where they might have led. Regret cannot give you that time back, but it can show you what matters to you now. And sometimes simply beginning, and returning to the work, creates the readiness we keep waiting for. I hope you give yourself the time to choose your craft again. :)
I used to spend a lot of time executing the creative vision of others as a screenwriter in Hollywood, doing work-for-hire rewrites on existing scripts. Focusing more intensely on my own work is indeed a different kind of practice. I try to differentiate between incubation and avoidance. Avoidance just comes down to fear, but that fear is mostly the work of an overprotective ego. Once I get to the actual work, it feels less like "I" am doing anything and more like allowing something to express itself through me.
Incubation and avoidance can look almost identical from the outside, but the internal experience is completely different. I can also relate to what you wrote about the work expressing itself through you. It reminds me that our role is often less about forcing and more about creating the conditions for something to emerge.
That’s such synchronicity Fides! I looked in my notes written just a few days ago and I had written the sentence, “Creativity is not something we consciously will; rather, we create the conditions for creativity to emerge all on its own.” So we are LITERALLY “on the same page.”
Thanks a lot this means much to me. To face a challenge is to begin an adventure; to live an adventure is to conduct an experiment in the art of becoming.
Thank you for this. I let my own artistic business fall by the wayside a few years ago in service of a family business for the ‘greater good’. I now find myself unemployed as that business has been sold. I grieve the time I could have spent on my craft, how much further along I could have been, the person I could be right now had I chosen myself. I find myself resisting the work now, feeling like tomorrow I will feel better, that I will be more ready. This article helps. Thankyou.
Thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts.
I can understand grieving the years you might have spent developing your own work, especially when you can imagine where they might have led. Regret cannot give you that time back, but it can show you what matters to you now. And sometimes simply beginning, and returning to the work, creates the readiness we keep waiting for. I hope you give yourself the time to choose your craft again. :)
I used to spend a lot of time executing the creative vision of others as a screenwriter in Hollywood, doing work-for-hire rewrites on existing scripts. Focusing more intensely on my own work is indeed a different kind of practice. I try to differentiate between incubation and avoidance. Avoidance just comes down to fear, but that fear is mostly the work of an overprotective ego. Once I get to the actual work, it feels less like "I" am doing anything and more like allowing something to express itself through me.
Incubation and avoidance can look almost identical from the outside, but the internal experience is completely different. I can also relate to what you wrote about the work expressing itself through you. It reminds me that our role is often less about forcing and more about creating the conditions for something to emerge.
That’s such synchronicity Fides! I looked in my notes written just a few days ago and I had written the sentence, “Creativity is not something we consciously will; rather, we create the conditions for creativity to emerge all on its own.” So we are LITERALLY “on the same page.”
Thanks for sharing! Your research is impressive! I’m looking forward to the creative challenge.
Thanks a lot this means much to me. To face a challenge is to begin an adventure; to live an adventure is to conduct an experiment in the art of becoming.