Welcome back creative people.
I am so impressed that you're still here, that you are still turning up.
It's really easy to sign up for one of these challenges.
"I'm going to make everything better."
And it's really unusual for you still be here to be still putting in the
time and the work and to really be making this commitment to yourself,
as a creative person.
So standing ovation.
I am literally standing.
Over the past few days you have identified your Fairy Art Parents, the people
in creative lives who inspire you.
You have noted down what it is about their art and the way they live, their artistic
lives that really inspires and moves you.
You've noted the commonalities that crop up among all the people
and works that you really admire.
And you have taken the step of rating.
Your manifesto in my work, I will be.
Noting down those qualities.
That really matter to you that align with your values that
inspire you to take action.
And that maybe scare you a little bit.
This manifesto may scare you a little bit.
Or excite you a little bit, depending on your personality.
Because it's deeply connected to your values and the things
that make you most uniquely you.
So don't worry if you're a little nervous about this.
You don't have to live up to this every minute of every day that you're writing.
This.
Is a guide.
These are guardrails for when things start to go wrong or for when you
were lost or for when you're sitting down to write in a great mood.
And you're like, I don't really know what I want to do today.
And you can check your manifesto and be like I sure know that it's
going to have these things in it.
It's going to have these qualities.
And it's going to be leading in this direction.
Whatever I decide to work on today.
I'm going that way.
If you feel like you've reached a place with this document that
you're comfortable with it for now.
It's a little bit frightening.
It's a little bit exciting.
It makes you a little bit surprised at yourself.
It's a little ambitious.
Then go ahead
and sign it.
And date it.
That's today's task for you.
Print out this document or do this digitally, if that works for you as
well, but slap your name on that thing.
As a commitment to yourself, that in your work from now on, you will be.
(you will strive to be), but you will be aiming at being all of the
things you wrote in this manifesto.
And date it, because you're going to come back to this over and over again.
And when you come back to it.
It's really interesting to look at the date and see how long
you've been on this journey.
And how things might've changed since then.
Usually the values don't change very much.
If you do this exercise again in a couple of years, you may
find yourself adding different.
Or more fairy art parents.
And you may find more things to admire values that have surfaced for you.
But usually there'll be in the same direction or maybe your tastes
will have changed and you'll have a deeper understanding of who you
are as a person and as an artist.
So it is very much an exercise you can do over time.
It's one of the things where you'll probably find the least amount of
fundamental change because you did.
Dig deeply into your values, but.
It's worth dating it because then you get to see.
How far you've come.
When you come back to look at this thing.
And I want you to begin to use it.
Post it on your wall or make it your screen saver or put it somewhere,
tucked into a journal where every day when you open your journal, you see it,
depending on how much privacy you have in your space and how comfortable you are
with other people seeing these things.
But I want you to use this manifesto.
Every time you sit down to write a new work.
Every time you pitch a new idea.
Every time you continue a piece that you've been writing before,
take a quick look at your manifesto.
And remained yourself.
Of what you are trying to achieve.
Not what someone else thinks you should be doing.
Or not how someone else thinks you should be doing it.
What you are trying to achieve.
Not just today.
But in your writing life as a whole.
Use the manifesto.
Every time you sit down to work.
So now you have your writer's manifesto.
I want you to come back tomorrow so that we can talk more about exactly
how you can use this document.
To help you.
write more, write better, never work on ideas that don't matter
to, you never pitch an idea that you don't want to work on.
Never get stuck in the middle of a piece.
And how you can now use this to underpin all of the work that you're
going to do in the future, building your writing skills, building
your practice, doing the practice.
All of it is going to work with this manifesto.
So come back tomorrow.
We'll talk more about that.
And then I will have a final wrap up for you.
So come back tomorrow and we'll talk about that and we'll really start to put
this into practice in your creative life.