I've felt that exact same way when i'm struggling creatively :( leaving my workstation and sitting outside doing stuff on my laptop helped me immensely and my website too. also OMG I LOVE ZINES such an underrated art form :3
thank you for reading !! it does a lot of good to get out of the usual workflow, what i do when i get down like this is to call the week off and play stardew valley or sims until next monday or so lol; also i just got a message from the guy managing the zine, i still got time to submit the text but it has to be at most 280 characters long which is almost 3000 characters less than my first draft @_@
I think frustration in art comes because things we create come to exist much different than we imagined, but I think this is because when we create, in the little mistakes we end up liking or how we react to things that feel different in real life than what we expected, we finally add the piece of them that is truly us without realizing and our art stops being the sum of our influences and finally becomes ours
You are a singer, a guitarist etc no qualification like “somewhat of” is needed :) a change in the general feeling of life is always scary. While our life can be fun or miserable at a given time, I think the beauty of our life doesn’t come from individual moments or individual emotions. It comes from the motion, flow, and contrast between them and how that changes and informs us to make us more whole people.
thank you sarah, I loved what you wrote, for real :^) I agree entirely. I needed to read that, thank you. I hope everyting is going well for you!
the first step to reaching your goals is figuring out what you want, so you're halfway there :) and you should totally make a zine!
thank you ! i did submit my entry for the zine, the guy managing it spared me some time so maybe it'll get published soon :^)