The Slow Work

So I'm currently nursing a nagging headache and some neck pain (feeling much older than twenty-five right now)... but I wanted to pop on here real quick.

One lesson I've learned, especially over the past week, is that you can't really over-plan and expect things to go smoothly.

I've been doing a lot of experimentation, a lot of "let's just see what happens". I've been opening myself up to new people, new experiences. Very slowly, like a baby learning to walk (again). It's been fun, mostly.

And of course, I'm carrying this approach over to my creative process as well.

I thought I'd be done with my poetry draft by the end of this month. That's not happening.

What is happening, though, is the growing understanding that I've done enough work already to keep me on track, and my art is better served by me settling down and letting the process be slow sometimes.

I tend to rush when I feel the creative juices flowing, because I'm never sure when/if they'll come back. I feel like I need to seize on them immediately. And that's not a bad way to work.

It can be harmful, though, when the art isn't served by the rush. So I'm slowing down.

I'm still on track, but I'm enjoying the journey, and I'm very slowly exploring what the world has to offer me in other areas of my life.

Oh, and I'm breathing. Steadily, deeply.

Until next time,

-D.