Are you enjoying your work?

A rant on creativity as work

I relearned something over the weekend that I have long forgotten. How to enjoy the creation process.

I’ve been so focused on trying to be successful and set up for some sort of extra cash flow that I’ve forgotten to have fun and enjoy my work. It’s the number one ingredient to my work besides all the emotions. Maybe it’s what I’ve been missing this whole time?

I’ve struggled to focus until this weekend. No matter where I turned, I’d worry about how I was going to buy a new chicken coop. How I was going to pay bills if I went out to live on my own. Distractions from parents talking to loud and interrupting me. It gets rather tiresome to worry about every single thing, so I just stopped.

I sat down to do my work. Focused on one project at a time, and soon I whittled away at the stories. I’m working on a presentation for this Friday so it’s like writing another story. What I did was focus on illustrating for it and I say it’s coming along nicely. I wish I could pull off more realistic textures to the character’s but what I have will do for now. It’s just a practice, anyway.

Something I’ve always said: “When you enjoy your work, people always enjoy it better”. I don’t know what attracts people, but I assume it’s the passion for the project shining through. But I wish I remembered this several months ago lol. I’ve been so stressed that it’s ruined my ability to work creatively.

No more though!

Thanks for reading and maybe I’ll talk more about this subject in the future.