Kristina Ness  ✨

This is all really insightful, btw- thanks for opening up about it. I don't want to be reductive- but would you say it would be a fair summary to say that progress for you would look like "less fear"?

I think "less fear" is like half of the key, and "just puttin' my nose to the grindstone" is the other half? There's a lot of stuff I want to do that I know is just going to take conscious effort and practice!

The idea that you, of all my friends of all time, feel that you're not "putting your nose to the grindstone enough" really rocks my worldview

I think I've tricked my brain into thinking that because I exist in a constant state of "Not Being Done Yet"—because I almost always have outstanding freelance gigs, or day job tasks, or personal projects—it means that I'm also constantly failing

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Nesssssss I believe it

I have spent the last 3 years doing freelance in my evenings after my 9-5 art job & still feel guilty about not drawing over my weekends because of arm injuries--but the brain says i'm not producing enough personal work

"once I get my hands on a literal Time-Turner it's over for you bitches" I say to myself, huddled against my Cintiq for warmth