Feineigle.com

2025-10-19

Tags: Art · Creativity

The key (to anything really) is to stick with it and every day do something that advances your project specifically or your craft generally. Doing this should help to get you into a flow-like state where it becomes habit and you simply "do the work" every day without really thinking about it. The author argues that there is no such writer's block (but this could be applied to any creative endevour) and a lack of daily practice is what keeps people from getting things done; if you don't feel inspired, write anyway, write junk, throw it out, keep writing. "We don't write because we feel like it, we feel like it because we write." With all this practice every day taking up a large chunk of your life, one should recognize that if you are planning to become great at your craft, understand there will be a sacrifice - you can't do everything.

Creative Act

2025-10-09

Tags: Art · Creativity

Apparently Rick Rubin is a music producer, and while he certainly makes use of some art as music examples there are plenty of other media he explores with his examples and musings. Some of the advice given is quite literal in how you might go about whittling your work down or finding ways to see the works (or world) through a different lens. Other advice is more abstract, but useful none-the-less, and helps you find, start, or complete a project when you are stuck. I think his advice on treating every project as nothing more than an experiment, that you can discard at a moment's notice like a child dropping one toy for another, helps to alleviate stress about it being good enough and simultaneously allowing even failures to be seen as experimental stepping stones that will make the next project that much better. Finally another important take-away is the idea that you can train for anything - that obviously means the technical aspect of your craft, but it also means you can train yourself to quiet you mind, to focus on different aspects of whatever you are looking at, or even how you give and receive criticism.

Catching the Big Fish

2025-10-01

Tags: Art · Creativity

Each of the damn near 100 'chapters' is little more than a couple pages that read more like a long form Twitter post than anything resembling an actual book chapter. It feels like it was written by someone who doesn't write for an audience of people that don't read. Overall I generally disliked the whole idea of all these 'random' chapters flowing in no particular order, but I must admit that there are a few gems, particularly on the topic of creativity and film making, hidden among the dross. Lynch's creative process can probably be summed up accurately as: meditate and be happy. With this, I can not disagree.

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