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Stage 07 of 9

Make

How do you sustain the making?

The middle is where projects die. Momentum matters more than inspiration. Build a rhythm, protect the studio, ignore perfect and pursue finished.

Prompts to sit with

  • 01What's your minimum daily engagement (30 min? 2 hrs?) — and when?
  • 02What decisions have you already made so you don't re-decide them each day?
  • 03Where are you stuck — technique, concept, energy, or logistics?
  • 04Who sees the work in progress and gives useful feedback?

Small practices

  • Batch similar tasks (all under-drawings, then all colour passes).
  • Keep a 'parking lot' list for tangential ideas so they don't derail the current piece.
  • Take a full day off per week — burnout costs more than it saves.

Read alongside — in the book