We are dashing around this morning so this article on routine which we’ve been saving for a free moment is especially apt. To quote:
Most artists work as the rest of us do, incrementally, day by day, according to their own habits. That most art does not rise above the level of routine has nothing necessarily to do with the value of having a ritual.
As we have long suspected, our daily practice of stumbling around bleary-eyed until the coffee maker shudders to a stop and then staring blankly at our monitor until our fingers begin to move is part of our creative process. It will henceforth cease to be known as “waking up.”
