Want To Get Off The Rollercoaster?

I’m a writer and we tend to have emotional highs and lows—seems to come with the dedication to writing stories.

I’m sure painters have something similar. I’d venture the guess that all creative folk do…

Lynn Biederstadt‘s blog, Sky Diaries,  says, when describing itself: “A journey that’s kinda like Life.”

So, perhaps, everyone can relate to this post. Still, creative types seem to have more “thrilling” rollercoaster-living.

In one of Lynn’s recent posts, she said:

“We create. We imagine. We doubt. We doubt some more. And then what?

“How do we pick ourselves up and move forward? How do we proceed in the knowledge that the feedback didn’t come…the next gig didn’t follow…the blog went unread…the piece was rejected?

“Falling into that emotional not-so-grand canyon is too easy. We walk at the cliffs’ edges of ourselves, along uncharted paths that can—and do—too easily crumble away under our feet. Rejection (or, more often, the resounding echo of our voices into the nothingness of response) is devastating. And that lack of recognition is always present, or about to be.”

Lynn offers what she calls a “solution of the moment”—Conscious Joy.

I urge you to read that post. I hope you’ll leave Lynn a comment. I can dream, if you have ways to modulate the intensity of the up-and-down cycles of the creative life, that you’ll also come back here and share them with me :-)
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