You no need fo get picked

Get one idea you stay almost starting, but nevah start yet. Um wen survive da winter. Um wen survive plenny good reasons why somebody more qualified should do um instead, and um still stay here dis morning, which is more than most ideas can do. Da room stay bright. Notting stay stopping you fo real kine. Worth fo sit wit dat fo one minute before da day get all busy.

One pen you neva use fo long time. Dust stay turning inside one ray of light by da shelf. Da soft electric hum one building make when almost nobody stay up yet. Get one notebook, three pages stay used, da rest stay waiting, dat's da most honest ting inside da room.

You been waiting fo somebody fo pick you. One commission, one invite, one title, some kine outside sign dat say you can go. Dat waiting can eat up one whole ten years, and da reason why is da sign you stay waiting fo, dey almost always give um to people who already wen start. Nobody give one stranger permission fo make someting. Dey give um to whoeva already stay visibly making um, which mean da credential you like get, come after da action you stay holding back until you get da credential. You been standing on da wrong side of your own process.

Look what dis waiting stay really doing fo you, cuz um doing someting. As long da ting neva start, cannot judge um, and one project dat neva start get one perfect record. Dat not laziness, an it would be mean fo call um dat. Dat's protection wearing da costume of standards, and um work good right up until you notice one perfect record of notting is what um make. Da people whose work you admire, dey neva get betta permission than you. Dey had early drafts, and most of dose drafts wen suck, and none of dat wen matter in da end.

So today you start um, and you no tell nobody. No post, no message, no mention to nobody supportive. Telling people give you one small taste of da reward without da work, and dat taste, betta you spend um on da real ting instead. Fifteen minutes on da real ting, in private, dat's da whole assignment.

Nobody stay coming fo authorize dis. Dat sound like bad news fo about four seconds den um turn into da best news dea is, cuz um mean da gate you been waiting at, was neva locked. Push um. Um open from your side.