I stumbled across this quote by Tom Hiddleston this week:
“You fall in love with a possibility – a film, a character, a project – there’s no self persuasion.
It’s just 'I have to do that, and that’s where I’m going.'”
I just love that. "You fall in love with a possibility." That's the way almost everything in my life's been.
For me it's been "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Ballet," "The Magician's Nephew Ballet," this year's ballet, going to England with my Grandpa K., painting the stairway, writing a fantasy novel, writing a 27 page epic style poem, writing a trilogy of short stories to try out the Hunger Games' fast-paced style of storytelling, building a fort when I was ten, painting my room five colors....
You fall in love with a possibility.
You're surrounded by stars, crystal points of light, ideas, dreams, thoughts. Then one shoots across your airspace and you go "Aww. There it is! That's the one!" And it fills your sky till it's almost all there is.
Some dreams are better than dreams. You fall in love with a possibility.
Some might call it crazy. I'm sure it is. But there's something in an artist that tells them what their next project is going to be, and it's not rational. It's not thought out. It's just BAM! - This is amazing. I've got to go there -
And I'm already gone.
Right now, I'm almost done with my first fantasy novel, Suffer A Secret. It will be 15 chapters, the same length as The Magician's Nephew or The Horse and His Boy from the Narnia Chronicles. I'm half-way through chapter 13 now. Basically, I have 1.5 chapters to write and my book is ready for editing!
I'm so excited.
You know what though? Falling in love with a possibility turns awful, sometimes. Artists know: the passionate love at the beginning of a project has to become a self-sacrificial love at the end. Everything's always more difficult than you'll ever expect it to be.
Some projects are like being married for a section of your life. An artist trips on a dream and falls hard for a possibility. From there out, it just gets harder and harder until at last you FINISH! And then you don't know what to do with yourself until another rush comes along and you're off following another scent.
But the joy is in the pain. Creating art is difficult and requires so much of one's self. But it's worth it because keeping it in would be so much worse. I once read a quote I've always felt completely in sync with:
For me it's been "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Ballet," "The Magician's Nephew Ballet," this year's ballet, going to England with my Grandpa K., painting the stairway, writing a fantasy novel, writing a 27 page epic style poem, writing a trilogy of short stories to try out the Hunger Games' fast-paced style of storytelling, building a fort when I was ten, painting my room five colors....
You fall in love with a possibility.
You're surrounded by stars, crystal points of light, ideas, dreams, thoughts. Then one shoots across your airspace and you go "Aww. There it is! That's the one!" And it fills your sky till it's almost all there is.
Some dreams are better than dreams. You fall in love with a possibility.
Some might call it crazy. I'm sure it is. But there's something in an artist that tells them what their next project is going to be, and it's not rational. It's not thought out. It's just BAM! - This is amazing. I've got to go there -
And I'm already gone.
Right now, I'm almost done with my first fantasy novel, Suffer A Secret. It will be 15 chapters, the same length as The Magician's Nephew or The Horse and His Boy from the Narnia Chronicles. I'm half-way through chapter 13 now. Basically, I have 1.5 chapters to write and my book is ready for editing!
I'm so excited.
You know what though? Falling in love with a possibility turns awful, sometimes. Artists know: the passionate love at the beginning of a project has to become a self-sacrificial love at the end. Everything's always more difficult than you'll ever expect it to be.
Some projects are like being married for a section of your life. An artist trips on a dream and falls hard for a possibility. From there out, it just gets harder and harder until at last you FINISH! And then you don't know what to do with yourself until another rush comes along and you're off following another scent.
But the joy is in the pain. Creating art is difficult and requires so much of one's self. But it's worth it because keeping it in would be so much worse. I once read a quote I've always felt completely in sync with:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
For me, it's either, here I am for the world to see, or me living dead.
There is no third choice.
There is no third choice.