Creativity Takes Time (…And That’s A Good Thing)

Practice makes perfect. Well… it doesn’t. But it makes it better than it was when you started!

Unfortunately, when it comes to creative stuff — the process is slow.

Some people, somewhere, are the lucky one in a billion who can create a masterpiece with no practice or preamble. (Lucky so-and-sos.)

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Most of us, though?

Nope. No such luck.

We have to put the goddamn work in!

That means that the level of recognition we receive for our achievements is also slow in coming — which is probably not a bad thing.

We grow and evolve as people, allowing our art or whatever to grow and evolve with us.

(It also means that of my 1300+ blogposts on my personal blog, Dora Reads, relatively few people have read the early ones. Which is good because…they weren’t!)

You wouldn’t want a global audience to see/hear your school concert, would you?

Nope. That would be uber-embarrassing. (For most of us — those who aren’t amongst the lucky…