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Professional artists are really interesting to listen to when they talk about their productivity routines. Since many of them work alone, they are more prone to

Professional artists are really interesting to listen to when they talk about their productivity routines. Since many of them work alone, they are more prone to not accomplishing anything. The successful ones have a repeatable process for balancing creativity with the time required to produce a work of art. They tend to have a daily practice of challenging / improving their skills. They setup a dedicated studio, and work at reducing disruptions and so on.

AlwaysRock 5y ago
Inspiration often comes after starting any given creative process.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  I am a professional artist and I have to disagree with this. Once creative work becomes the thing you spend a large part of your life doing, you cannot rely on just sitting around waiting for inspiration. Creative workers regularly discuss the ways to get ourselves to work when we feel a total lack of inspiration for something with a looming deadline, as well as ways to create conditions where some kind of creative inspiration is more likely. There is also the fact that sometimes "inspiration" can lead to a long process, I am finally nearing the end of a multi-year process of grinding away at drawing a comic book that came from the simple idea of "what if I told a story from two sides, with the characters changing designs to ones that scream 'Good Guys' or 'Bad Guys' depending on which side we are currently following".
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    > I am finally nearing the end of a multi-year process of grinding away at drawing a comic book that came from the simple idea of "what if I told a story from two sides, with the characters changing designs to ones that scream 'Good Guys' or 'Bad Guys' depending on which side we are currently following". That sounds cool. Game of Thrones was like that. You just got a good hate on, for one of the characters, and they went and spoiled it, by telling their story. The Boltons were bad news, though. Even the author hated them.
  - b3morales 5y ago
    There's a pithy take on this that I like, usually attributed to William Faulkner: > I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.
  - AlwaysRock 5y ago
    I said inspiration often comes AFTER starting. You are arguing the point I made.

AlwaysRock 5y ago

Inspiration often comes after starting any given creative process.

egypturnash 5y ago
I am a professional artist and I have to disagree with this. Once creative work becomes the thing you spend a large part of your life doing, you cannot rely on just sitting around waiting for inspiration. Creative workers regularly discuss the ways to get ourselves to work when we feel a total lack of inspiration for something with a looming deadline, as well as ways to create conditions where some kind of creative inspiration is more likely. There is also the fact that sometimes "inspiration" can lead to a long process, I am finally nearing the end of a multi-year process of grinding away at drawing a comic book that came from the simple idea of "what if I told a story from two sides, with the characters changing designs to ones that scream 'Good Guys' or 'Bad Guys' depending on which side we are currently following".
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  > I am finally nearing the end of a multi-year process of grinding away at drawing a comic book that came from the simple idea of "what if I told a story from two sides, with the characters changing designs to ones that scream 'Good Guys' or 'Bad Guys' depending on which side we are currently following". That sounds cool. Game of Thrones was like that. You just got a good hate on, for one of the characters, and they went and spoiled it, by telling their story. The Boltons were bad news, though. Even the author hated them.
- b3morales 5y ago
  There's a pithy take on this that I like, usually attributed to William Faulkner: > I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.
- AlwaysRock 5y ago
  I said inspiration often comes AFTER starting. You are arguing the point I made.