A Public Pledge
I’ve read the books, I’ve done the soul-searching, I’ve meditated and exercised and konmari-ed, and, yet — here I am.
Creating a blog about not creating.
This is a pledge to myself. Not to create anything in particular, but a commitment to understanding why I’m not finishing what I start.
Here is a list of projects that remain unfinished:
A short story
A personal video essay
A website game
A serial webcomic
And that’s just the stuff I want to finish.
When I thought about creating this blog, I told myself: "I will write a post every week detailing my struggles, my ambitions, and what I've learned, regardless if I've moved forward or not."
But now I'm scared I will fail at yet another thing I've started. Another abandoned work. Another project for the graveyard.
What will I do differently this time? Will a kind of development log for my creative path change my current trajectory?
I am prepared to discover that I am not an artist, after all.