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When I read the obituary about Sister Wendy one thing she said struck me. “I’m not a critic. I’m an appreciator” she said in 1999, “I think great art opens us not just to the truth as an artist sees it, but to our own truth . . . You’re being invited to enter into the reality of what it means to be human.”
I wanted to devote my next several blog posts to motivation and achieving goals, but then other ideas popped in my head that I found a lot more interesting so I’m going to shift gears and put a bunch of ideas together in one.
Here are some tips you can use to reach the goals you want to achieve this year. Hopefully something will inspire you to take action.
It’s the beginning of a New Year and many creatives have goals and plans they want to fulfill. Goals are important, whether it’s a goal to read more, eat better, create more, learn more, it’s helpful to know where you’d like to end up.
Just read Steven Barnes’s “The Hero’s Dead-End Journey” a powerful cautionary tale about how writers (specifically) or artists (generally) kill their creativity.
