Your Inner Critic might, to the untrained eye, look like a fluffy adorable teddy bear… but we know better!
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The Artist’s Way
We tend to think, as a culture, that inaction – indeed sloth – is a bad thing. But what if it was necessary in the creation in art? Australian Playwright Michael Gow thinks this is the case. Here is an extract from his appearance on Radio National’s Spirit Of Things.
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I don’t do as much as I would like to. Infact I don’t even do as much as I intend to do. There’s this great inexplicable and hard-to-describe resistance that gnaws at me. I try to ignore it. It gets louder. I usually then procrastinate, play computer games, over-eat, over-sleep… But it doesn’t stand up to close scrunity. The voice inside me that says “You’ll never be able to do this” doesn’t make a lot of sense in the face of the understanding that I’ve usually done some version of the task before. Often numerous times. But, as Steve Pressfield notes in The War Of Art, it doesn’t have to make sense. It is an emotional impulse not a logical one.
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In daily use the Morning Pages described in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way serve as brain drain. They help you take all the extraneous detail – the stuff that Cameron insists stands between you and your creativity – and put it on the page. On a daily basis this can be quite helpful, but what can we learn from the pages over time?
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