the Empathy List #144: The Part Where You Sit Your Butt in the Chair
Why does *doing the creative work* have to be so hard?
Hello friend, Liz here.
Today we’re talking about the hard work of sitting your butt in the chair and getting your creative work done.
The 2nd episode of Knock at the Sky: A Creative Journey is live, and you can listen in your podcast app of choice.
Jeremy and I are talking about developing your craft…. by so much practice. And we discuss what it really means for each of us to really sit in the chair and put down a first draft and/or a first pass at a collage. Because making art requires sweat!
We also talk about how our artistic collaboration as a couple worked as we labored over the book, Knock at the Sky. (Spoiler: it did not always go smoothly, but required a lot of communication and boundaries to make things work.)
And we talk about why the practice of art-making is worth it... even if you have less than 1,000 instagram followers and even when you write the shittiest of shitty first drafts. (Like Liz.)
We also discuss the fine art collages that precede Chapters 4, 5, and 6 in the b…
