you gotta work on something everyday. even if you donât think youâll ever reveal it to the public. even if itâs not in the medium you typically work in (if you paint, do a pencil drawing or write a poemâŚif you sculpt try making an abstract pastel drawingâŚif you write essays try writing a songâŚso on and so forth). even if itâs !not good! thatâs fine. even if you work on a little bit each day thatâs okay. youâre still stimulating your brain and when the block is over your mind with be warmed up and ready. this is def something iâve struggled with recently but making an effort to keep myself active creatively has helped a ton.
Jun 20, 2024
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Keep in mind that you donât have to create on a daily basis, in an artist life, we have other stuff to do, from work to keeping our social life with our friends.
However, donât feel bad if youâre enable to create for the moment, it might be just an art block that you will overcome with time.
Nevertheless, when you have a free time for yourself, try to just do it for 5 minutes, 5 minutes is nothing right ? So why not just do it even if itâs just one word / one sentence, itâs okay, 1% is better than 0%.
Slowly but surely you will get back on track ! đŞđ˝
Jan 11, 2025
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When I say âwork,â I donât mean your job. I mean spiritual or artistic work whatever that may be. Whole lotta folx wanna be artists and I donât disapprove of that. Itâs good people want to be âcreativeâ even though itâs painful and most ideas are bad. If you have the desire to be âcreativeâ (and maybe one day, featured in this very newsletter alongside these contemporary luminaries) you must do your work every day. If you do it every day, eventually youâll have something resembling a body of work and maybe even mastery of a craft.
May 31, 2022
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Before you guys ask, yes Iâve been doing the morning pages from âThe Artistâs Wayâ LOL
Real talk though, the structure of the book has been super helpful in structuring my own creative process, and one of the best possible things itâs done for me so far is to learn how to write and create, even when youâre ânot in the moodâ or youâre mentally blocked. On the days I canât think of shit, I just start rambling about gossip and chairs and people watching (or whatever misc thing is on your mind) and all of a sudden a new project idea hit me out of some random association in my brain from years ago that I never touched til now
Anyway yeah, GO WRITE AND CREATE EVEN IF YOU DONT FEEL LIKE IT bc youâll be surprised at what finds you!!!
Apr 8, 2025
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liking ur rec = saying hi when we go to get our morning papers from the end of our driveways (picture me doing so tony soprano style)
Aug 12, 2024
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she canât see my bank account so itâs ok.
Mar 21, 2025
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started writing this a few hours ago when i first saw this ask, then decided against posting but i've since changed my mind. there really is no justification for it outside of entitlement. even from a selfish lens, there's no long term benefit to its usage. it harms the world and culture in more ways than one.
a.) the water and energy usage that isn't a secret at this point. "no ethical consumption under capitalism" yadda yadda and yeah corporations are extremely culpable in the state of the environment but there really is no need for chatgpt and the planet is already too delicate at the moment.
b.) the exploitation of workers in the global south. this program is not just a computer figuring it all out, there are in fact humans behind it. it reminds me of the acceptance of fast fashion and how people have the tendency to divorce the idea of the garment worker from the garment they wear when all clothing is handmade in some way, shape or form. you need hands to man a sewing machine, you need human eyes to moderate content. also, content moderation can be a thankless job with psychological repercussions.
c.) the erosion of social skills, humanity and media literacy...this one is very personal. like, you have a cushy email job but can't write an email? you need a computer and a worker in kenya to get paid a dollar an hour to figure out a daily routine for you? i've seen the program churn out blatantly incorrect information. fine tuning a prompt or chat or whatever to give you the exact (possibly incorrect) answer you need isn't really that much less work than sharpening your research skills by cracking open a dictionary or using boolean search keys in google. again, the main issue with this kind of stuff is the entitlement to convenience, with no thought towards the repercussions within and outside of us. we are losing major recipes (critical thinking and media literacy) here, people!
i probably did an iffy job are coherently articulating my thoughts here but i am in fact, human. and thatâs the beauty of it all.
Oct 1, 2024