Generating something that matters, a thing we will offer out into the world in a gesture of soulful devotion, is a necessarily long, often arduous, (only sometimes) rewarding task...
I love this! I’m not working on a book (I think, lol), but I write every day, and have allowed myself to be as irrelevant and messy as naturally happens…
I actually set out to do this daily writing practice simply for…practice! But I don’t know that practice makes perfect – more like it just ups the possibility that something good may seep through now and again. Plus, it’s been a wonderfully deep conversation with soul and the world…
{Full disclosure: I’m actually in process of going through my notebooks from the last three years and extracting my favorite pieces ~ I’ve been delighted and surprised by some poems and images that came through. But would they have come had I put the constraint on myself that every day had to be something good? Possibly not. Possibly it was the freedom to suck that allowed the play to be alive}
Yes! Thank you for your generosity toward your own creativity Ariana. How lovely to be going through your notebooks from the last three years and be delighted and surprised! thanks for sharing some of your experience in your creative journey. I know, first hand, it's been a devout one. xo
I'm so glad the timing of this post is supportive. I wish for you that you can dare to make a complete mess. Thoroughly embarrass that one of you who is holding you hostage. It's a brilliant practice, and one I can endorse from intimate experience!
Thank you for sharing your creative process and the humility here. I am surrounded by artists, writers and musicians. I find myself stopping self expression because it doesn't just automatically flow out of me with grace and ease. I feel I need to keep it to myself behind closed doors not to disrupt the world with my clumsy awkwardness. 🙏
One of the questions that has become a mantra for me, 'what do I have to lose?' What, really, is at stake if I were to dare to dive headlong into the messiness of my unrefined, utterly unpolished, first draft process? And...even more importantly, 'what do I have to gain?'
May The Fates bestow bravery upon you as you stand at the edge of your own deep roiling brilliant pool of creativity.
I love this! I’m not working on a book (I think, lol), but I write every day, and have allowed myself to be as irrelevant and messy as naturally happens…
I actually set out to do this daily writing practice simply for…practice! But I don’t know that practice makes perfect – more like it just ups the possibility that something good may seep through now and again. Plus, it’s been a wonderfully deep conversation with soul and the world…
{Full disclosure: I’m actually in process of going through my notebooks from the last three years and extracting my favorite pieces ~ I’ve been delighted and surprised by some poems and images that came through. But would they have come had I put the constraint on myself that every day had to be something good? Possibly not. Possibly it was the freedom to suck that allowed the play to be alive}
Yes! Thank you for your generosity toward your own creativity Ariana. How lovely to be going through your notebooks from the last three years and be delighted and surprised! thanks for sharing some of your experience in your creative journey. I know, first hand, it's been a devout one. xo
Thank you. This is perfect timing. I’m just beginning the conscious process of capturing my knowings and noticings in a mindful and intentional way.
I also struggle with fears of getting it wrong and being found inadequate in my mistakes and failures.
And yes, I know there’s a LOT that wants to move through me and be expressed.
Thank you for your words and your generousity of spirit.
🙏🏽
I'm so glad the timing of this post is supportive. I wish for you that you can dare to make a complete mess. Thoroughly embarrass that one of you who is holding you hostage. It's a brilliant practice, and one I can endorse from intimate experience!
Love, love, love this! Laughing and crying… thank you.
Thank you for sharing your creative process and the humility here. I am surrounded by artists, writers and musicians. I find myself stopping self expression because it doesn't just automatically flow out of me with grace and ease. I feel I need to keep it to myself behind closed doors not to disrupt the world with my clumsy awkwardness. 🙏
One of the questions that has become a mantra for me, 'what do I have to lose?' What, really, is at stake if I were to dare to dive headlong into the messiness of my unrefined, utterly unpolished, first draft process? And...even more importantly, 'what do I have to gain?'
May The Fates bestow bravery upon you as you stand at the edge of your own deep roiling brilliant pool of creativity.