For what feels like years now, I’ve been stuck in a creative rut. Full of desire with a lack of drive. Consumed with ideas but no inspiration to see them through. Yearning to do nothing but create yet riddled with anxiety about “doing it wrong”. And all this has led to is procrastination and a worsening case of imposter syndrome.
Enter: Matt Farley, New England’s modern renaissance man. A man so driven to create he refuses to let anyone tell him no. Instead of giving up, he dives deeper into his art. You may not have heard of him, but once you do you will not soon forget.
As of this writing, Farley has released 23,000 original songs, a dozen feature films, and most recently, The Motern Method, a 136 page tome detailing his creative process. The book is filled with philosophical tidbits and reminders like “all works are flawed”, “world domination is not mandatory for artistic success”, and “there is nothing better than having a creative project to work on.”
And he’s right! There isn’t anything that compares to making art. You might spend hellish weeks freezing in the woods filming with friends. You can spend that time locking yourself away from the world to craft your next masterpiece. Once you finish (the key here is FINSH) feelings of pride will overtake you. Good or bad, whatever you made is yours.
I’m not quite sure of everything that I’m going to post here. But that’s okay. I just need to keep creating.
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