True or False: Questions For Your Creative Self

(yes, you have one - everybody has a creative self)

Your discipline and industry will determine your long-term success, influence, and impact more than your talent.

Creativity requires you to entertain one possibility after another after another - you don't stop at the first or second idea.

Worrying too much about how much money or praise your work will get, will only get in the way of your creativity. You should think only about what you want to do when you sit down to create.

You can take up a new activity at any age, and in fact your creativity and art may come to its full flourishment only as you age.

If you dedicate yourself to getting better at what you do, you will find better tools and better ideas as you go along - it's the way of creativity.

Creating things will bring you as much joy as consuming things. That is why everyone who cooks finds it as much fun to cook, as it is to eat what they cook.

If you are fully present and do not allow yourself to be distracted while working on what you are creating, you will enjoy it more, and your results will be better too.

Your age is not determined by your wrinkles, or a bent back, or your inability to walk far or fast, but by your willingness to be open, curious, and continuously interested in making, growing, understanding, and creating things.

You have a better chance of creating when you are “interested,” “excited,” “enthusiastic,” and “inspired”, so you should do whatever it takes to get into that state and stay in that state.

As you keep going down the creative path, you will find challenges entertaining more than frustrating. "How do I do this?" becomes an interesting and engaging puzzle.

Finally, time flies when you are creating. You realize that your back or your hand is hurting, or that mosquitoes have chewed you up, or that it's way past your mealtime or bedtime, only when you stop.

🐥🐣🐰🐥🐣🐰 Happy Easter Dear Reader. To you and yours. And to your creative self. Hope you create wonderful memories (not just wonderful things) today and everyday🐰🐣🐥🐰🐣🐥

When You Write...

Some may find you entertaining,

Some may find you trite,

This is what you can expect,

When you write,

When you write.

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Some won't give you the time of day,

Some will send likes and compliments your way,

This is the price you have to pay,

When you write,

When you write.

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Some will say you don’t get to the point,

Some will with pleasing words your prose or poetry anoint,

Don’t let the lukewarm and less than hearty responses get you out of joint,

When you write,

When you write.

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Some might tell you they take inspiration from your words,

Some might only point out what they find lacking or absurd,

For both good and bad feedback, you must gird,

When you write,

When you write.

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Some might review you in glowing prose,

Others might tell you where you were shoddy or verbose,

Reception to your writing will be different, both amongst friends and amongst foes,

When you write,

When you write.

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And if all of the above makes your spirits sink,

And you think it must be avoided by copious red ink,

My advice to you dear reader is to edit but not overthink,

When you write,

When you write.

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Yes, stay strong dear writer, whatever it is you are inspired to say,

Don't let the lack of perfection, or the fear of negative reactions, scare you away,

Let your words be seen and heard, and let them fall where they may,

Hit the submit or publish button,

When you write,

When you write.

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Dedicated to writers everywhere.

Professional writers like Stephen King.

And amateur writers who got to 645 posts by practicing what they preach (guess who).

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Read this next…How Do You Upset The Status Quo? 

Or this: What Are the Downsides to a Person Being a Striver?

And last but not least, read this quote on writing regularly. Writing and publishing regularly is what serves a writer most of all:

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” ― Octavia Butler