It's hard
5th December 2016 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, music, writing, KEEP CREATING, agents, value the art, Ayesha Pande, performance art |
You wouldn't want to immediately start performing in Carnegie Hall before you've practiced your violin for 10 or 20 years. Writing is no different. It's hard—show me that you have respect for that."
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give yourself permission
"You have to give yourself permission, say to yourself, 'I'm not foolish for wanting this.' All writers have to fight the same fight. I have to write 2,000 words today, no matter what. That's my discipline, and that's me protecting the work."
it is crucial that you write every day
"Once you are engaged in writing a piece of fiction from your unconscious, it is crucial that you write every day, because the nature of this place where you go is such that it's very difficult to find your way in. It's pure torture. But even though it's terrible getting in, once you’re in, if you keep going back every day, though it's still always daunting and difficult and scary, it's not nearly so much so."