Slow Progress Is Still Progress

[ptevis]

I'm once again working through The Artist's WayI say "once again" because this is either my third or fourth attempt. It's not that it doesn't work for me, it's that every time I try it, I get a little farther, I learn something new, and then I fall out of the routine. (I'm pretty much guaranteed to have some schedule-rattling interruption in any

Comments

[princeofcairo]

You will learn that it is actually easier to write than not write...

Which just goes to show you how bloody hard it is to not write.

[bloodthorn]

You (and Ryan) have been saying for a while that you have to love the process. I don't remember who I heard it from first and I don't remember if you got it from else where that phrase, "I don't want to write. I want to have written." has been haunting me wherever I go. This paragraphs seems like a restatement of that.

[ptevis]

I think I first heard that from Neil Gaiman, but I can't be sure anymore.

For me, this goes even a step beyond even that, and it's the extra step (which Ken commented on above) that didn't hit me until now. It's that sense of "Yes, this is going to be a lot of work, but that's so much better than the process of not doing it" that has only just started to get into my bones.