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Re: Mindful meanderings of the mindless

Posted By: MACK!
Date: SAT, 1/17/04, 4:14 a.m.

In Response To: Mindful meanderings of the mindless (Andy_Leeke)

My advice is to just start doing it. In any form. In all forms. Don't try to figure it all out ahead of time. What is important is that you get yourself INTO the process. Sometimes you think you have to have it figured out before you write. This will just lead to procrastination and frustration. The information comes in the PROCESS of the ACT of working. Then you connect with your creative self that is more than your conscious self. And you jump from bridge to bridge and get lost and found in the process. Then there will come a point when you realize what you are doing and why and what direction you are going in. But what is important, is that if you are a writer, or an artist, the process is what is enjoyable. Even when it is not enjoyable, it is, because you are where you should be in the ACT of it. So you just DO it. You put your all in it. And the work becomes its own thing after the fact, and wether people choose to see it as great or not will be a seprereate thing. Most likely some people will think it is great, and some people will be blind to it, and others will relate to it and learn something from it and that will be rewarding to you, and create amazing and unpredictable ripple effects in other's lives and in the rest of your lives. But not as rewarding as the very ACT of finding your place in the universe by immersing yoursefl in the ACTION and PROCESS of doing what you are hardwired to do.

If you are a writer or an artist, you will do it. Because you have no choice. You will do it wether it is fun or not. Or you will be miserable if you do not do it. And when you do it, even when it is miserable and hard and difficult work, it will be fun.

Go team.

: its 230 am here, ive got loads of coursework, but i find
: myself wanting to write and im feeling moody. so here
: goes....

: My english tutor told me last week i have the potential
: to be a best selling author. for the past 6 days since
: she said that its been running through my head...my
: mind is searching through every aspect of my
: life....trying to discover who i am.I have no clue how
: i became a good writer, i didnt even finish high
: school because of illness. i hated english...and now
: apparently i could make a living out of something im
: good at and like doing. The problem is... its not what
: i love. I cant restrict myself to words. Its shocking
: me that id rather be a below average artist than a
: world famous author. they're both just possibilities
: now...but anything can happen.

: I dont know what im trying to say... i think its all just
: leaning towards a phrase ive used so many times.
: "you can only be great at what you were born to
: do" - thats become my philosophy.

: and now, sudenly... eveything is different. my world has
: become a swirl of murky confusion, just like it was
: before everything happened to me.... all because of
: one sentence...

: As big headed as it sounds, do you ever feel as if you're
: destined to be great, but find yourself constantly
: wishing you could just stay in the darkness,
: observing? as long as i can remeber ive felt that im
: either gonna do something amazing or momentus failure.
: theres no middlegroud for me...

: i hate it.

: sorry for jabbering on... just venting i guess.

: Andy

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