We’re sponges. We find inspiration in everything around us.
We look at other art and think our work isn’t good enough because it’s “not up to par” with someone else's
We won’t grow if we believe that our art has to be like others to be good enough.
In the master’s program at NYU, I struggled with an assignment to write a scene-to-song using a designated playwright’s work. I couldn’t do it. Faculty member Martin Epstein told me: “LET YOUR VOICE tell the story.”
So, I wrote a biting, funny parody that was slammed by faculty who revered the playwright's words as sacrosanct. But I was happy with it: It was my voice.
I am highly critical of my writing and art (I’ve never been able to do hands).
The “reviewer” in my head tells me to do it over, toss it, not good enough, nope, Epic Fail, etc.
Don't listen to the nasty Blabbermouth in your head.
Drown it out with these words: LET YOUR VOICE.
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