This month I look at procrastination as part of the writing process. I consider both the micro and macro ways it shows up in our specific projects, our creative process and our life as an artist. I speak about:
Shame and the procrastination loop.
Worrying, avoiding and anxiety’s relationship to procrastination.
The desire to do something that we love beautifully.
Delaying moving from one phase of a creative process to the next.
Journaling as a tool to discover which part of yourself is procrastinating; the human, the artist or the project?
Artistic detachment as a cause of procrastination.
Creative scar tissue from past projects.
Feeling behind - as a result of procrastinating and a cause of procrastination. As well as the loop of procrastinating, feeling behind, getting stressed, then procrastinating because facing that we’re ‘behind’ is too painful.
References:
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Playwright’s Process Podcast Episode 15 'The Artist's Way' Weeks 1-4
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