Just do it

Notes on the creative process

I want to write about a creative process that’s working for me.

It kind of boils down to don’t think so hard. Don’t stop up the flow of thoughts coming out, because it’s the original energy of the thoughts which carries the power. Even if you find all kinds of discomforts with the words or the phrases that you’re using. Especially, perhaps if you’re uncomfortable with speaking, or if you’re tired of hearing the sound of your own voice.

The cerebral, analytical, discursive mind, the judging, evaluative mind, is so important for forming our tastes. It develops our sense of who we are but we cannot let it guide us too far because it will stifle everything if allowed to.

Just do it.

Just show it.

That’s literally it. Just do it. Just do it.

I kind of wanted to do a dance project around the feeling of running through the woods. Open sky and green. Bark against your cheek. A kind of gruff kiss. The exhilaration of running full on darting between tree to tree. I kept the idea in my head for a while, trapped it. It was sweet to have it all to myself. I knew the feeling internally, and it could not be brought out externally, and it didn’t need to be yet. It was basically never going to be. And then I told a friend about it, and that I wasn’t sure how to do it, and he said Why don’t you just go run through the woods? Because the woods were far away and kind of dreary, and I would have to go alone.

The creative process cannot be reached from a discursive or analytical place. It’s inherently an impulsive thing, a thoughtless seed, it does not know itself. Let it be.

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