Comments on: How I get myself to write http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/ Tatvam Productions tells stories that reach for the truth, share the reality and communicate the inner meaning. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Three One-Minute Reviews and a little gem…  |  PassionForCinema http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Three One-Minute Reviews and a little gem…  |  PassionForCinema Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:56:50 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/#comment-43 [...] Besides watching these fine (or not-so-fine films), I also figured out how to start writing again (other writers, jump in on this!) [...] [...] Besides watching these fine (or not-so-fine films), I also figured out how to start writing again (other writers, jump in on this!) [...]

]]> By: Shripriya http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Shripriya Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:59:55 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/#comment-39 Good advice! Another thing I've found -- get addicted to the adrenaline of the act (writing, blogging, whatever). Then you'll want to do it more. Good advice!

Another thing I’ve found — get addicted to the adrenaline of the act (writing, blogging, whatever). Then you’ll want to do it more.

]]> By: shrimathi http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/comment-page-1/#comment-38 shrimathi Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:54:02 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/11/02/60/#comment-38 You are addressing one of the most universally applicable questions of all time! Writers, artists, scientists, musicians, just plain ordinary folk face the same dilemma : how to get started. Students, teachers and professors have a time-table to follow, and therefore must "get started" anyway, but for the "artistically inclined" there may not be any such regimen. And that may be the secret of it all: a regimen, a time-table, a "must-do" that literally gets us going. We need to have this "must-do" list to get us going, on a daily basis, so that at least something gets done. There is the very human need to do something "useful" with our time, and may be the best way to get started is a sense of duty: I must do this now, I have to get this done today. Art Buchwald, the humorist, had written a piece on how he gets going every day to write his daily column : how he does everything but write (sharpening pencils, lining up his notebooks, changing the typewriter ribbon -- it was in "those days"), and finally running out of excuses and time, he would get to writing his column. Of course, it was a humorous piece on "getting started", but the point is that, after all the time-wasting tactics, he has to just get down to it. So, the answer lies in the timeless and universal advice given by Shri Krishna in the Bhagavat Gita: do your duty to the best of your ability, and the results will be there. Or the more modern take on it : "just do it" !!! You are addressing one of the most universally applicable questions of all time! Writers, artists, scientists, musicians, just plain ordinary folk face the same dilemma : how to get started.

Students, teachers and professors have a time-table to follow, and therefore must “get started” anyway, but for the “artistically inclined” there may not be any such regimen. And that may be the secret of it all: a regimen, a time-table, a “must-do” that literally gets us going.

We need to have this “must-do” list to get us going, on a daily basis, so that at least something gets done. There is the very human need to do something “useful” with our time, and may be the best way to get started is a sense of duty: I must do this now, I have to get this done today.

Art Buchwald, the humorist, had written a piece on how he gets going every day to write his daily column : how he does everything but write (sharpening pencils, lining up his notebooks, changing the typewriter ribbon — it was in “those days”), and finally running out of excuses and time, he would get to writing his column. Of course, it was a humorous piece on “getting started”, but the point is that, after all the time-wasting tactics, he has to just get down to it.

So, the answer lies in the timeless and universal advice given by Shri Krishna in the Bhagavat Gita: do your duty to the best of your ability, and the results will be there. Or the more modern take on it : “just do it” !!!

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