Kent Wayne

On my creative process…

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A young man wearing a gray hoodie and a baseball cap, writing in a notebook while standing.

This may sound odd, but in regards to writing, I believe five minutes a day can be enough. I believe writing badly can be enough. I’ve had months where I could only write five minutes a day. I’ve had days where everything I wrote seemed like garbage. I don’t believe any of that matters. What matters is that I showed up and wrote.

When I consistently focused on my personal calling (even if that was just five minutes a day), life arranged itself so I could spend more time writing. I’m not sure if that’s due to hidden forces, an existential design, or pure dumb luck.

At the end of the day, I don’t think it matters. I think it’s worth it to give your calling a shot, even if it’s just for five minutes a day. Because if there’s a hidden power that listens, it’s good to let it know that you’re willing. Or, if it’s just pure dumb luck, then why not roll the existential dice? They might just come up in your favor.

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15 responses to “On my creative process…”

  1. C.L. Ingro Avatar
    C.L. Ingro

    I love this. Even at my busiest, I try to write at least one sentence a day. In the past, it became too easy for me to put off writing altogether, so now I am committed to opening my document every single day and doing SOMETHING.

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  2. Bo Avatar
    Bo

    I agree…. I am the same way.

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  3. my word (s) Avatar
    my word (s)

    Definitely 👍🏽 Showing up is the number one priority.

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  4. jerryschellhammer Avatar
    jerryschellhammer

    You absolutely right about being diligent and disciplined when it comes to honing your God given talent. Even scrolling out bad writing is better than not writing.

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  5. shawjenn82 Avatar
    shawjenn82

    Yes! Good advice 🙂

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  6. tempest711 Avatar
    tempest711

    Yes sir!

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  7. Paul A. Denk Avatar
    Paul A. Denk

    You’re right, and the good thing is that writing, like any other skill, improves steadily with use. AI is useful to me as a research tool. It even offers me good advice, like a keep paragraphs short and use occasional subheadings. However, I don’t let it write for me!

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  8. M.C. Addington Avatar
    M.C. Addington

    Agreed I don’t think it matters either as long as you showed up.

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  9. A Hundred Visions Avatar
    A Hundred Visions

    This doesn’t sound odd at all, it feels true. Showing up, even for five minutes, builds something most people overlook. I really like your honesty about writing badly and still continuing. And that idea of rolling the existential dice stays with me. Sometimes that small, consistent effort is exactly what changes everything.

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  10. Phoenix Rising Avatar
    Phoenix Rising

    I love this! As someone who had always aspired to writing… dabbled but never felt the confidence that I had enough to say that was worthwhile, I’m beginning to find that it’s in life’s minutiae that the greatest treasures might be found. So if all you have to write about is the toast you ate for breakfast, then go ahead and do so; and do it as well as you can at that time. Sometimes a treasure might reveal itself in the process.

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  11. Chinmay Karlekar Avatar
    Chinmay Karlekar

    looking at writing as art or an emotional cathartic experience, I would say that I refrain from attaching it a consistency or performance metric like we humans tend to measure ourselves on for every little thing we do. And instead just let things happen to me or through me, like Kent says in one of the other posts. Whenever they happen, however irregularly, without keeping track. because I believe only then is the art coming out purely art for the sake of it. for yourself, and not created to address or provoke thoughts in a target audience.

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  12. mysimplethrills Avatar
    mysimplethrills

    This is very solid advice, thank you. new subscriber here!!

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  13. PRIYA KALAKOTLA Avatar
    PRIYA KALAKOTLA

    I really connected with this. When I first started writing on WordPress, I didn’t know where it would lead. I just kept showing up, one post at a time. Reading this felt like a reminder that consistency quietly does its work, even when we don’t notice it. Thank you for sharing this. 💐💐
    “Your words helped me recognise my own journey.”❤️

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  14. yusefasabiyah Avatar
    yusefasabiyah

    “I think it’s worth it to give your calling a shot, even if it’s just for five minutes a day. Because if there’s a hidden power that listens, it’s good to let it know that you’re willing. Or, if it’s just pure dumb luck, then why not roll the existential dice? They might just come up in your favor.”

    I like that you call writing your calling.

    Another word for calling is vocation.

    Max Weber would have used both words, vocation and calling.

    “Now it is unmistakable that even in the German word Beruf, and perhaps still more clearly in the English calling, a religious conception, that of a task set by God, is at least suggested. The more emphasis is put upon the word in a concrete case, the more evident is the connotation. And if we trace the history of the word through the civilized languages, it appears that neither the predominantly Catholic peoples nor those of classical antiquity have possessed any expression of similar connotation for what we know as a calling (in the sense of a life-task, a definite field in which work), while one has existed for all predominantly Protestant peoples.”

    — from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: the relationship between religion and the economic and social life in modern culture. Max Weber. Chapter III “Luther’s Conception of the Calling”, “task of the investigation”…

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  15. PrincessCrystalSays Avatar
    PrincessCrystalSays

    You are so right. I am at home by myself a lot and I get bored. So I tend to write a lot on my blog and throughout the past twenty three years. I wrote a bunch of stories that ended up becoming books, however, it took me until last year to figure out how to publish them so now I have a lot of books on Amazon. I hope that you will check out some of my work as well. I will continue to check out your work.

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