Why ‘I don’t care, I love it’ is important when making art, a song or writing a novel

Day 6 NaNoWriMo– Written 2567 words tonight and total now is 11605 words. I was looking on a NaNoWriMo Facebook Group and a girl, probably in her teens was saying she was finding this writing of a novel so difficult as she thought her novel was terrible. I loved the fact she was even trying and  I had to write the following in support and encouragement;-)
‘I am embracing the fact that my #NaNoWriMo novel could be terrible. I am just doing the work of writing it & if it is the world’s worst novel I have decided that’s ok too / at least it will be the world’s worst finished novel!
What I do know absolutely is that other people’s view of our work (whether music, a novel, a play) has nothing to do with us – one will love it, another may hate it. We just need to do our work & tell that annoying self-doubt that tries to stop us ‘I don’t care, I love it! – sing it to yourself when the negative thoughts come in if necessary “

We all have to finish the work, the book, the play, the album. Without the initial draft there can be no edit, without going through the boring nightmare of doing scales one cannot play the piano or sing an aria, without the brush on the canvas there can be no artwork to love or destroy 😉

Elizabeth Gilbert did a great TED Talk mentioning the Greeks  who thought there were muses in the wall, so you had to do the work and the actually artistic genius or lackthereof was the muse in the walls responsiblity, this meant whether the work was good, bad or great it was to the muse’s fault or credit. (Details here)

I am reminded by Simon Callow’s advice to me ‘Keep On Trucking’

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