More than an anything else these days, we need to heed the advice from Austin Kleon who said:
Maybe the world will always be crazy, and creative work will always be hard. Then the question becomes: How do you keep going?
As hard as it is to keep going, sometimes it’s equally hard to start. It’s daunting. How can you write all those words? It’s overwhelming, so you don’t even start.
And so it was great when Kleon shared a quote from the author Stephen Harrigan that makes starting that much easier. Harrigan says:
I think that when it comes to writing books, you have to start before you think you’re ready, because you will always feel like you are never ready. I find that as you write the book, the road ahead becomes clearer; before that, the road ahead is just a distraction.
Isaac Newton’s laws of motion say that bodies in motion want to stay in motion and that items not in motion want to stay in put. Of course, I’m butchering that, but it’s all about inertia.
Artistic projects are the same. Once they’re in motion, they want to stay in motion and then, as Kleon said, you keep going.
