At Your Own Pace

April 11, 2025


There’s a rhythm to making art, and it doesn’t always line up with what the world wants—or expects. Some days it’s a quiet hum, others it's a thunderous roar that won’t let you sleep. But here’s the truth: you can’t force creativity to obey a calendar or a trend cycle. And you shouldn’t try.

Artists aren't factories. We're not here to churn out product to meet demand. What drives us is something deeper and less predictable: a need to express whatever is taking up space in our heads and hearts. Sometimes it's raw. Sometimes it’s messy. Sometimes it's unshareable, at least for a while. But it always needs to be made.

If you’re working to match the pace of the market, you’re not following your muse—you’re chasing shadows. And in doing so, you might be leaving behind some of your best work, the stuff that needed more time, more silence, more freedom.

Creating just to be “relevant” or “on trend” might get attention in the short term, but it rarely leads to lasting fulfillment or real innovation. Because when you're always watching the market, you're looking outward instead of inward. And art—true, resonant art—comes from inside.

Let yourself make things when the inspiration strikes. Let yourself rest when it doesn’t. There will always be time to decide what to share and when to share it. That’s the part you can be strategic about. But the act of creating? That’s sacred. That’s yours. That’s the part you should protect at all costs.

Whether you release your work into the world or keep it close for a while, the work itself matters. The act of creating is never wasted. Even if no one sees it right away—or ever. It all builds. It all counts. It all shapes who you are and where you go next.

So go at your own pace. Follow the urgency of your own vision, not the urgency of the world’s appetite. Make the thing your heart is asking you to make.

And trust that it’s enough.