You’re never going to have it all figured out. There is no magic formula. You’re trying to define something that, in its essence, is indefinable.
You figure it out while you’re doing it.
You don’t figure it out and then do it. If you approach creativity that way, you’ll never do it. (The thing you really want to do.)
So, actually, those were five things to know about the creative process.
But they all come back to the same premise: You figure things out while being in the mess, fear, beauty, and weirdness of it all.
Do you figure out love first and then decide to go out on a date? Do you try to figure out compassion before you give a homeless man money on the street?
Constantly trying to figure things out from your head would immobilize you from taking any kind of action and experiencing the thrill of what true creativity is.
Life is in process. So is one’s creative exploration.
But actors get so impatient about…well…everything. Impatience is the enemy of process; robbing us of our joy.
When did we lose the fun in process? In figuring things out? I was talking to a female actor yesterday who’s newly in love. She seems
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