“Paint what you like and die happy.” – Henry Miller
Here is Henry Miller’s Daily Program:
Writing Commandments
- Work on one thing at a time until finished.
- Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’
- Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
- Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
- When you can’t create you can work.
- Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
- Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
- Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
- Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
- Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
- Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterward.
And here is Henry Miller’s Daily Roadmap.
MORNINGS:
- If groggy, type notes and allocate, as stimulus.
- If in fine fettle, write.
AFTERNOONS:
- Work of section in hand, following plan of section scrupulously.
- No intrusions, no diversions.
- Write to finish one section at a time, for good and all.
EVENINGS:
- See friends.
- Read in cafés.
- Explore unfamiliar sections — on foot if wet, on bicycle if dry.
- Write, if in mood, but only on Minor program.
- Paint if empty or tired.
- Make Notes. Make Charts, Plans. Make corrections of MS.
Note: Allow sufficient time during daylight to make an occasional visit to museums or an occasional sketch or an occasional bike ride. Sketch in cafés and trains and streets.
BIG RULE: Cut the movies!
Library for references once a week.
Here is my book aboute creative process: Letters to a Young Artist in the Digital Age: Encouragements for a creative life
Namasté,
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