This is day 2 of Artist Diary, today’s dispatch is titled Daily Diary. You can check out the entire Gameplan here.
If you’ve not done Day 1, please start there.
A note on the assignments: It’s been so great to see how quickly the community here is taking shape, and people are trusting and encouraging one another. If you are not getting the emails, you may have them toggled off, this is the page to toggle things on again. If you can manage 2 ten minute sessions in a day, I encourage you to keep going with the one sentence in addition to what I’ll introduce to you today.
I want us to be super clear, we are doing this as a form of training. A physical act.
Okay Let’s go, welcome to day 3:
Daily Diary
We know that athletes, musicians and actors all have to practice, rehearse and repeat things until it gets into the body, the ‘muscle memory’, but for some reason, writers and visual artist think that they have to be inspired before they make something. Not suspecting that the PHYSICAL ACT of writing is what brings that inspiration about.
— Lynda Barry
I was talking to my friend Jen Gubicza yesterday,and we were discussing teenage rebellion.