Ideas, ideas, ideas. We all got ’em. Time, perseverance, and hard work. Most of us don’t have that.
Hard work is clearly what separates the artists from the critics. Artists spend their time in the solitary realm, not knowing if their art is going to find an audience.
Critics, on the other hand, spend their time contrasting the art they’re critiquing with the idea of art they wish they could be making. Yet they’re unwilling to expend the emotional labor required of them to make art.
I’ve been wondering about myself lately. I feel like I’m primed to go — I know what I need to do to make it, but I’m not putting in the hours! It’s not enough to scratch out a blog post once a week (if only that) and think I’m building a business.
Ironically and unsurprising, it’s during the time I’m writing that I see the light.