Nothing beats the feeling of writing your own book. The joy,
pain, excitement, disappointment, of creating your own world with your own
people is such a blessing. Not everyone relates to this series of emotion but I
highly suggest you try it out one day.
I began to write my debut novel on Thursday it was so
thrilling-finally letting my creativity, my imagination steers the ship for
once in my life. I thought that was it, this isn't as hard as New York
bestsellers make it out to be and then I finally refocus my attention on my
work I have only written a sentence which wasn't complete by the
way. What? For like 30 seconds I'm left wondering how the hell is
this happening. Not until it strikes me that I remember how I've been searching
for the antonym of searching and also had written something before, a dialogue,
but I'd been debating "How can I make this sound saltier". End
of the day I closed the curtain on my writing session for the day with only 60
words written. I was like "Boy; this is going to be a long project"
Creating art doesn't just take time to build or see your
creative vision come to life, it also takes patience the act of not given up
till you can turn that 60 words per hour to 300 words per hour, admitting that
in the beginning you are probably going to suck at this no matter how talented
you are. Another thing is discipline, choosing a preferred part of the day that
you are most comfortable with, productive in and also importantly you don't
have other things or responsibilities pulling your attention away from your
sacred hour.
As artists sometimes without really realizing this, we tend
to discover an idea through the lens of experience. Experience shapes who we
are as people and as artists we sit with those moments to carve out gold. So
don't feel despondent when you feel you are hitting a wall creatively and just
don't have a clue on how to scale through-best thing to do is to do nothing.
When your eyes feel so dry and your head can't seem to come up with any sort of
brilliance to fix the current plot hole in your work then the right thing to do
is to bat down the laptop, reach out for your dog and go for a walk. While
treading the street with your dog try to be present. Take notice of everything
you see and feel. Absorb the energy of the trees dancing to the wind, touch the
flowers, talk to people-they don't have to be writers or book lovers, they can
be normal people like engineers, teachers who you just hang out with and talk
about politics for example.
Connecting with people, being open and present to these
moments that may seem quite ordinary to a normal person is what truly makes you
an artist, an artist living the artistic way of taking in every single energy
and using it as fuel to generate music that speaks to people about mental
health crisis, fuel to write that novel about the justice system and what needs
to be changed.
Artists create what slaps the dark corners of our soul
because they can get into people's heart, their heads. Knowing what they are
feeling, what they are experiencing and mutating it into a blessing. A gem that
can be relevant for a long time, passed down from one generation to another as
a gift, a sign of love.
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