I'd give you a recap, but it's basically just the usual complaints about trying to work on a creative project. The cleverness lies in the presentation.
Maybe I can send you a pair of headphones instead? :)
Seems to me that discouragement is contagious and perpetuated by depressing and hopeless (if grimly humorous) videos like this. To me, a project is something I LOVE, that excites me, that I can't wait to get started on - and in the midst of it I sometimes get frustrated and have to do parts of it over and over, until it is right. I am following an inner sense that creates a discord between what I see or feel as the finished project in my mind, and what I am creating physically with words or art supplies. As I move reality closer and closer to what I see in my mind the discord grows and strains like a seventh cord yearning toward resolution (remember that THX clip where the music strains to become "in tune?"). The energy produced by the discord drives and pulls me toward completion and pure harmony.
If you are discouraged, perhaps it is because you have lost the spark that made the project interesting to you to begin with. What can you do to rekindle the spark?
I think that it's important to recognize that different people are different. I really am glad that projects feel that way to you, but for me, projects are pretty much always like pulling teeth and sweating sharp objects through my pores. There's no initial spark that was lost and needs rekindling. It's always been like that. Obviously I find value in doing it or I would find another thing to do, but for some peopl (a lot of people), even valuable, worthwhile projects are just arduous work, through and through.
The value of videos like this is letting people who are like that know that they are not alone, that there are lots of other people for whom the process is just like that too. That knowledge can be critical to persevering instead of just concluding that because you don't feel a chorus of bird song and inspiration when you sit down to work, you're not automatically wrong or terrible or not a real writer / musician / whatever. That's what the part in the video about Hemingway explains -- the importance of knowing that other people, and especially others who eventually do finish works of value -- go through that too.
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Date: 2010-08-27 06:19 pm (UTC)(Actually I can but there's no audio allowed without headphones, on account of it would be really annoying to your neighbors.)
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Date: 2010-08-28 06:20 am (UTC)Maybe I can send you a pair of headphones instead? :)
Rekindle the Spark
Date: 2010-08-28 02:20 pm (UTC)If you are discouraged, perhaps it is because you have lost the spark that made the project interesting to you to begin with. What can you do to rekindle the spark?
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Date: 2010-08-28 02:58 pm (UTC)That works for staring at a blank sequencer screen then placing and erasing a few series of notes then deciding not tombother saving it as well.
Re: Rekindle the Spark
Date: 2010-08-28 03:10 pm (UTC)The value of videos like this is letting people who are like that know that they are not alone, that there are lots of other people for whom the process is just like that too. That knowledge can be critical to persevering instead of just concluding that because you don't feel a chorus of bird song and inspiration when you sit down to work, you're not automatically wrong or terrible or not a real writer / musician / whatever. That's what the part in the video about Hemingway explains -- the importance of knowing that other people, and especially others who eventually do finish works of value -- go through that too.
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Date: 2010-08-28 04:37 pm (UTC)