Let the Babies Go

From the book of Persistence

Break the habit of turning your work into something more than it needs to be.

Because the mind has a way of overly fixating on what we produce. It attaches all kinds of storylines to it that may or may not be true.

Yet sometimes, and especially in the creation and editing phase, the work must be able to live without this running narrative.

The promotion stage is ripe for narratives. At this stage, we have to communicate the intention behind the work.

In order to get to promotion though, you have to be able to let these babies go.

It’s this sense of surrender that will get the work out there.

Follow your instincts that you began with, and trace them back to the time when no critic was bossing you around.