Starting and following

Sometimes you noodle your way into a melody. You start with a note, then you respond to that note … and you keep going. Before long, you’ve got something.

Many creative paths can work this way. Whether it’s a daily blog or a practice of drawing and painting or some other regular act. Sometimes you just start somewhere and you see where it goes.

Some people think that artist have special gifts.

Maybe so.

But mostly, it’s a practice of starting and following. People who have convinced themselves that they’re not creative are simply not doing either.