Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)

Have been out best part of the day hunting down the elusive last minute Christmas bits.  On returning home I sat at my laptop to check emails and eventually began to follow a thread from one blog to another and stumbled across this short video of Ira Glass talking about the creative process.  He makes a lot of sense, although I feel he is referencing the written artform, the same applies to drawing and painting etc...  Sometimes people get so disheartened and think 'I'm no good' when they set out on their artistic journey. Anyone just starting to play the piano would never expect to be able to just sit down and play a tune all the way through.  So why think a masterpiece should be made each time a pencil or brush is picked up?  Take the pressure off - enjoy the process - accept that if you put the time in then there will be improvement.  And we never stop learning, evolving, mastering.