Comments on: Loving The Process Of Creating http://writeupouralley.com/writing/loving-the-process-of-creating Children's Book Authors and Illustrators Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:15:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Burton Haynes http://writeupouralley.com/writing/loving-the-process-of-creating/comment-page-1#comment-181 Burton Haynes Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:54:33 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1680#comment-181 hi, outstanding site, and a very good understand! one for my bookmarks. hi, outstanding site, and a very good understand! one for my bookmarks.

]]> By: Kate Duke http://writeupouralley.com/writing/loving-the-process-of-creating/comment-page-1#comment-45 Kate Duke Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:53:59 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1680#comment-45 This is so true, and SO hard to remember. I constantly battle the feeling that setting out to put words on a page is a gigantic task. What better way to frighten oneself away from trying at all? The vision of the completed masterpiece can so easily get in the way -- but the job really is almost always accomplished one tiny, insignificant-looking bit at a time. Even creation myths from around the world recognize this: they usually allow their respective deities at least few days to get the universe in place. Why should we writers, mere mortals, feel we should do more, better, faster? This is so true, and SO hard to remember. I constantly battle the feeling that setting out to put words on a page is a gigantic task. What better way to frighten oneself away from trying at all? The vision of the completed masterpiece can so easily get in the way — but the job really is almost always accomplished one tiny, insignificant-looking bit at a time. Even creation myths from around the world recognize this: they usually allow their respective deities at least few days to get the universe in place. Why should we writers, mere mortals, feel we should do more, better, faster?

]]> By: Kay http://writeupouralley.com/writing/loving-the-process-of-creating/comment-page-1#comment-43 Kay Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:24:16 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1680#comment-43 Leigh Ann - Such a cheery boost! It made me turn to Julia Cameron's THE ARTIST"S WAY. She has such good tings to say about creativity. "Instead of allowing ourselves a creative journey, we focus on the length of the trip." Julia Cameron) Page length. Word count. Time committemnt. No wonder the muse runs, shrieking, for the hills. I beat this by chopping the project up into tiny, chewable mouthfuls. (As in - "Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time.") And I make little chapter-a-week charts that I paste stars on for completion "Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play." -- JC Thats why I use star stickers and other whimsical touches. "Creativity lies not in the done, but in the doing." --JC Staggering. A book is not creative. The writing of it was. A book is just the tracks the muse left when she danced with you in a moonlit clearing. Lets go dance! . Leigh Ann – Such a cheery boost! It made me turn to Julia Cameron’s THE ARTIST”S WAY. She has such good tings to say about creativity.

“Instead of allowing ourselves a creative journey, we focus on the length of the trip.” Julia Cameron)
Page length. Word count. Time committemnt. No wonder the muse runs, shrieking, for the hills. I beat this by chopping the project up into tiny, chewable mouthfuls. (As in – “Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time.”) And I make little chapter-a-week charts that I paste stars on for completion

“Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.” — JC
Thats why I use star stickers and other whimsical touches.

“Creativity lies not in the done, but in the doing.” –JC
Staggering. A book is not creative. The writing of it was. A book is just the tracks the muse left when she danced with you in a moonlit clearing.

Lets go dance!

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