Practice Makes Product

Writing everyday is really stretching my creative muscle for content.

My Morning Pages take all of my immediate, waking thoughts and stream of consciousness. It’s a good way to start the day...a blank slate feeling.

When it comes time to post a blog entry, I don’t always have the creative juices for content. Sometimes I feel dry...creative-less.

Of course, it’s easy for me to steer toward the perfectionism so tightly wound into my person. I want all of my entries to be content worthy...not just “here’s what I did today.”

I have to remind myself over and again that I’m not writing for anyone’s approval, validation or criticism—constructive or otherwise. My daily writing is for me.

By taking to the page every single day, I’m bound to move forward in my craft. Moving forward is the daily goal, but what I’m learning is that there are some days, some weeks where the content flows better than others.

I might feel drained and nothing to say on Tuesday but come next Monday, I’m filled with more to say. My flow is better.

Writer’s block happens. I acknowledge that. It’s part of the process. Even though I may feel like I don’t have much to say, I have to bring myself back around to the point of why I’m trying to write something, anything in a daily basis.

Practice...not practice makes perfect...not the goal. Practice makes product—content.

Letting myself off the hook about whether the message is enlightening or trite, is where I have to return over and again.

I‘m coming to understand more about the unblocking process and the importance of practicing and not performing.

I have some good things to say. I believe that I do. I know that I do.

I’ve been given the gift of verse by the God of the Universe. If I want to enjoy its bounty, I have to pick it up and use it.

There is One great Creator, and his creativity is part of my DNA. He gave me words to use for good and not for harm...to write them with authenticity and vulnerability...and to hone my craft daily so that the infusion of his creativity within me becomes a natural expression of who I am and who I have been created to be.