Creative Process, Continued ( stage 5 & 6 )

More of the 10 stages of The Creative Process

Stage 5. Working

Once you are actually working on your creative project, you enter into the long process of fits and starts, ups and downs, excellent moments and terrible moments – the gamut of human experiences that attach to real work. For this stage you need the confidence that you can deal with your own doubts and resistances and the confidence that you can handle whatever the work throws at you.

Stage 6. Completing

At some point you will be near completing the work. It is often hard to complete what we start because then we are obliged to appraise it, learn if it is good or bad, deal with the rigors of showing and selling, enter into the void of being without a new project, and so on. The confidence required during this stage is the confidence to weather the ideas of appraisal, criticism, rejection, disappointment and everything else that we fear will be coming our way once we announce that the work is done and the confidence to actually be finished.  

'It is Finished'  by JPfeiffer-150 x 30 cm  $400