It has been tempting for me, for many years, to think that the creative process is independent of discipline. They seem to be polar opposites – creativity thrives in wide open places. Discipline is restriction.
Yet, my most creative moments have been in response to restriction. Workarounds to get decent looking art despite the punishing limitations of realtime game engines. Nice looking renders and sketches, songs written, recorded, and sung, all done in my limited free time.
Yet when it comes to my writing, I resist discipline. Force myself to write when I don’t feel like it? Won’t my writing come out forced?
Maybe. But at least I’ll be writing.
Came across some interesting quotes on the subject today. Thought I’d pass them along.
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“Discipline is remembering what you want.”
–David Campbell
“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.”
–Icelandic Proverb
“It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.”
– Brutus Hamilton
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