This episode began as a book club style discussion after reading The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron and ended up being me sharing the very beginning of my journey as a fiction writer pursuing a career as a published novelist, what it looked like for me back then to be dedicated to that path, and how it all fell apart to leave me with online business.
“I always wanted to be a full time writer. I wanted to be a novelist. I wanted to be published. I wanted that to be the thing that I did in my life. And I also had that story that artists don't get paid well. Writers don't get paid well. That you don't get very much in commission or royalties. You have to sell a lot of books to be able to make a decent living. And I always looked at all those stories and thought… that might be true, but I'm going to find a way to do this, to do what I love, and to make a whole lot of money doing it.”
“I was so focused on being committed and doing the work and working hard and being dedicated to this and completing things. Because the faster I could complete a draft, the faster I could edit it, the faster it would get to a point where I could submit it, and the faster I could reach my goal. That was the only thing that mattered. Not the journey, not the experience, not the actual exploration of the story and characters and message and feeling that you can put into a story. Yeah, you can do that. But just do it quickly.”
“The act of creating no longer needs to be this tortured artist journey that we've heard so much about and that is so often seen in the world. I think the pursuit of creating art, just like the pursuit of our soul purpose, brings up stuff to heal. It brings up things so that we can expand and we can receive bigger ideas. And we can create those into the world as business offers, as workshops, as podcast episodes, as books. The pursuit of our soul purpose through business brings up all of that same stuff that a pursuit of art does.”
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