Beltane Solstice Moon
I’ve let the creative writing business slide for a couple of weeks, just got out of the rhythm with garden and other matters. That Loft class starts in three weeks and I want to get further along in my revision before then.
Been reading information about learning plateaus, as I wrote below and I’m certainly on a plateau in both the writing and the Latin right now. Just plugging away. Read a piece drawing on work in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest that suggested embracing the struggle, the sameness, the lack of progress or even the regression. Makes sense to me. When I can remember it.
It’s easy for me to fall into the despair trap. The one where lack of progress proves lack of talent, lack of smarts, lack. I fell into it for several years with the writing. I had this mindset, either you’re doing it or you’re not. Obviously not true. Learning anything takes time, often lots of time. That 10,000 hours stuff, I don’t know about that, but it does take a long time to get good at anything.
(Dreamer of Dreams, Edmund Dulac)
