Art’s Your Product, Not Your Self

I needed this reminder. It’s been seven or so months since I worked on a novel, and restarting after so long is pants-wettingly terrifying. What if I’ve forgotten how to do it? What if it’s all crap? Why am I doing this anyway when I already have a full-time job and more items on my to-do list than I can handle?

Oh yeah. Right. Because making art is fun when you remember it’s just a thing you made and not a ruler by which to measure the worth of your soul.

Cool. Yeah. Right. I remember that...