THE WAR OF ART
A few nights ago as I was tossing and turning over a piece I’m working on for the opening session of the Arts Conference at Willow - Toward Wonder, I was suddenly reminded of a book that I hadn’t picked up in awhile, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It is an incredible little resource for anyone who makes anything.
So what made me think of the book? Well, the piece that I’m working on (a performance art/multimedia thingy) tells the story of 4 performers who are working through the creative process and the struggles we encounter along the way. Pressfield’s book calls those struggles Resistance. As I poured through the pages hunting for the answer to the latest problem in my project, I was reminded of how powerful his little axioms were. Here’s just a little taste to tide you over until you can get a copy of your very own:
“There’s a secret that real writes know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is the Resistance.”
What does resistance look like for you?
[image via Neil Scott]
