I did it. A few days ago, I met my thirty-day goal for this year’s hundred-day project. Every one of those days I have drafted a landscape painting; every one of those days I have added content to, edited, read, or fine-tuned my book manuscript. It feels good. It feels so good, in fact, that I have continued beyond Day 30.
My new commitment—I just decided right now as I type these words—is to keep going to Day 50.
This is working. I am inspired to pick up the oil pastels each day. I am similarly inspired to re-engage my book pages. For both, I go where my energy is in that moment. Some mornings I need an unlikely-for-me color like pink to scrawl itself across the art paper. Some days I feel like revising a portion of text in my book; on the next morning I might have energy for adding new ideas, or I go with an insight that has come to me and type that onto the page. I’m suddenly struck by how collage-like an approach this is to both projects: pieces fitting together toward a whole. Intuition leads the way, allowing what’s in motion in my inner landscape to express itself on paper. We can journey toward the completion of bigger creative works in just this way.
What is your preferred pathway for creating something?
