Studio Support, Part 2: Get Yourself Notebooks. Many, Many Notebooks.

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• Fantastic Visions.
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• Many, many notebooks.
• Reasons.
• Seasons of distractions.
• My personal setup.
• Historical habits and the pain of forgetting.
• A peek inside.
• My favorite accident.
• The most notable benefit.
• TLDR.
• Part three.
• Post script.
• Giveaway.
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There’s a fantastic vision, oft conjured,

that goes something like this: artists lounge about, debauched and half sober, their muses occasionally tearing them from hedonistic distraction, pressing them to their work. Inspiration crashes upon them like a lightening strike and thus animates them to their purpose. Genius ensues.

Being an artist happens to them, discipline isn’t part of the equation.

Personally, I love that for us, and damn how I wish it were (universally) true. (I imagine a chosen few inhabit this enchanted realm. It’s not me, though.)

This mythology riffs on the notion that creatives simply cruise on inborn talent, and misses just how much dedication and work creating takes. It can be a job - not exactly like any other - but no less demanding.

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Welcome to part two

of my ‘Studio Support’ series where I discuss the supports I lean on to help dial back the pressure of creating consistently.

In Part One I shared all about my Studio Log and how it keeps me accountable to said consistency and tracking my work. Here I’ll detail the heavy lifters that make my entire art practice possible at all.

I absolutely could not do without this setup because -