Create: Day 35

April 5, 2011 21 Comments

Winter road by Scoo, creative commons licensed.

Day 35
The long night drive.

E.L. Doctorow famously said (although he’s talking about writing, this applies to all creative projects):

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Anne Lamott, in the fabulous book Bird by Bird, adds:

You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.

Create Month 2
What to do so far:
In case you missed a day, the reminders below are clickable.
Don’t put off creativity.
Use your limited experience with unlimited imagination.
Be content with seeing only as far as your headlights.

Need a refresher for Create Month 1? Click here.

Create: Days 32-60
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