Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is writing about creativity these days. I read something she had written and one thing leaped off the screen and grabbed me.

 "I didn’t expect to make a living from writing. I never demanded that my writing, my art, support me. Instead, I made a commitment to do everything I could to support my art. I worked whatever job I had to so I could keep writing. I made a promise to my art, that I would always support it, I would make the sacrifices so we could be together."
(Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert)

Having entertained notions of trying to make a living from my art and then seeing the futility of it and the loss of creativity it brought and with that the loss of the love of it, this speaks so clearly to me. I realised that this is a far better way to keep my art and my enjoyment of it, alive. 

I'll work whatever job I have to, so I can keep doing this, and keep loving doing it..... :)