{"id":10348,"date":"2015-10-21T05:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/10\/21\/one-reason-that-people-have-artists-block-is-that\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T05:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T05:34:45","slug":"one-reason-that-people-have-artists-block-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/10\/21\/one-reason-that-people-have-artists-block-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One reason that people have artist\u2019s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don\u2019t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant. And when you are in a dormant period creatively, if you can arrange your life to do the technical tasks that don\u2019t take creativity, you are essentially preparing for the spring when it will all blossom again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Marshall Vandruff, one of the best teachers I have ever had, on artist\u2019s block. Said during a webinar done on Visualarium to advertise his upcoming online course on animal anatomy (source links to webinar)\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/pale-afternoon.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">pale-afternoon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>THIS QUOTE HELPS SO MUCH OMG<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/saathi1013.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">saathi1013<\/a>)<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e52647bb2906b2d80978c0eb69f1a123\/tumblr_inline_nr2s2pZayj1rwrvrk_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This is actually really important to know &#8211; like, the number of times I mentally beat myself up for not producing 2000 words a day like\u00a0\u201cgood\u201d writer friends (remembering also that said writer friends don\u2019t also have normal jobs that take portions of their time and creative energy) when actually it\u2019s totally normal and fine not to be in a constant state of massive creative output. \u00a0You just have to trust that even if the ideas aren\u2019t flowing right this very second doesn\u2019t mean they won\u2019t start flowing again soon.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/llywela13.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">llywela13<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason that people have artist\u2019s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don\u2019t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant. And when you are in a dormant period creatively, if you can arrange your life to do the technical tasks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/10\/21\/one-reason-that-people-have-artists-block-is-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3624,3623,3622,618,3625,216],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-and-i-need-to-learn-not-to-hate-myself-for-being-dormant-in-one-skill","tag-i-always-go-through-cycles-of-productivity","tag-im-finding-this-is-incredibly-true-for-me","tag-important","tag-that-just-means-i-can-work-on-another-one-in-the-downtime","tag-yessss","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}