{"id":6381,"date":"2016-03-15T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T04:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6381"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:16:11","slug":"march-exercise-experiment-fifteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6381","title":{"rendered":"March Exercise  |  Experiment Fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHabit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, \u2018I\u2019ll do it if I feel like it.\u2019 One never feels like awaking day after day. In fact, given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all. The rest is nonsense. Perhaps there are people who can work that way, but I cannot. I must get my words down every day whether they are any good or not.\u201d
\n\u2013 John Steinbeck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great writers are not the only artists who know how to show up for work, but much can be learned from their sense of discipline. As I come to the halfway point of my 31-day exercise, I must keep compelling myself to \u201cconduct an experiment\u201d each day, instead of resorting to a proven approach. I find it periodically necessary to disrupt that part of my creative mind which seeks comfort in \u201cmarketability.\u201d If I prime the pump of imagination, spontaneity, and intuition with this kind of authentic ritual, and also maintain a habit of work, surely everything else in the studio will take care of itself.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHabit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, \u2018I\u2019ll do it if I feel like it.\u2019 One never feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52,13,18,186,388,71,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6381"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16125,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions\/16125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}