{"id":9121,"date":"2020-03-07T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2020-03-07T09:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T09:44:40","slug":"all-about-the-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=9121","title":{"rendered":"All about the grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9124\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Figure-83.-Faulkner-William-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Figure-83.-Faulkner-William-1-1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Figure-83.-Faulkner-William-1-1-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every day at 9 a.m. sharp.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That quote has been attributed mostly to <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2013\/10\/30\/inspire-nine\/\">Faulkner<\/a> but also to a number of other writers. It summarizes pretty much what it requires to be professional at anything: habitual hard work. I like the quote because that&#8217;s exactly the time I usually sit down at the easel, and it&#8217;s when I have the most energy and am also the most critical of what I&#8217;ve already done, partly because the sun rises and shines through a window behind me, often striking the canvas directly. There&#8217;s no escape from that intensity of sunlight: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FJdzoY-Wsc8\">God&#8217;s flashlight<\/a>, as Larry Miller put it in a slightly different context, though the feeling is the same. Despair and shame at everything so manifestly wrong that felt so right at the time. So 9:05 is when inspiration really strikes. It&#8217;s when you ignore everything going on inside you&#8211;the sudden urge to remodel the basement, the desire to shovel snow, the ease with which you can now contemplate the emotional safety of bank robbery compared with the struggle of painting&#8211;and you pick up the brush.\u00a0 Or the old shirt you use to wipe away a few square inches of still-tacky paint that represent five hours of sub-par effort&#8211;and you make merely acceptable whatever looked perfect yesterday and then, around 11 a.m, you actually start spreading paint on canvas in places you haven&#8217;t yet defiled. Around 3 p.m. you think, &#8220;Damn, I&#8217;m good.&#8221; Until inspiration strikes again at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every day at 9 a.m. sharp.&#8221;\u00a0 That quote has been attributed mostly to Faulkner but also to a number of other writers. 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