How Do You Enjoy Your Creative Process?

Recently I’ve been informed by a variety of esoteric sources–tarot cards, stars, and intuition–that the better part of my 59th year isn’t focused on making big projects happen but on “enjoying my creative process.” But what does this mean? Do YOU “enjoy” your creative process? How? Is that different than “working” it? I hope to blog about this–please add your thoughts!

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Russell Miller I enjoy the daydreaming part, coming up with ideas. Executing the work (great verb, huh? — you need to execute the work without actually executing it) is a long, painful struggle. I’m talking about composing and recording an album, but as Michael Kanin said, “I don’t like to write but I love to have written.”
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Jane Hermann-Simons I see all art as a process..I “enjoy” that process from the dreaming stage to gathering materials to creating the piece..I know there’s some angst in there too but if it weren’t enjoyable I probably wouldn’t do it! (speaking of visual art/craft here)

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Sasa Vazic I think we either have it within or not. When time comes, it just pops out. No hard work, no painful struggle. The whole life creates it without towards within.

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Susan Aylward You can definitely enjoy your creative process while making big projects happen! Take esoteric information for what it is.

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Roshan Houshmand i love my process – maybe she means focus on the process without aiming for results…?

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Hope Atterbury I think it’s more that my creative process enjoys me.

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Stella C Reed I absolutely enjoy my creative process and sometimes that is the same as ‘working” it.. But even when it’s hard work I would rather be engaged in that process than just about anything else.

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Cynthia Fusillo My creative process is what my work is about and really what my life is about at this point. …showing up, listening, having faith, getting out of the way, not judging , oh yes and ENJOYIng.

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Wednesday Nelena Sorokin For me, there’s a distinction between painting when I have a specific idea I’m bringing to fruition, and painting that is discovery. The latter is very enjoyable – pure joy, even – the sensuality of oil paint, feeling, smell, and the visual delight of watching color and shape relationships emerge. In the former type of painting all that is mitigated by impatience and frustration with the difficulty of making the painting be something that it might not want to be.

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Peter Frank I enjoy others’ creative process(es). I DEFINITELY work my own.

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Alfred Stanley Hmm … Sounds suspiciously like “to be is to do” …

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Jeanne Simonoff words come to me out of the air. if i make a list of these words then i have something to work with. writing is definitely a very physical activity and sometimes i just want to float on those words: tall blue stem, tigers behind the grass.