Creative habits can help you to create even if you don't have a deadline

If you are used to getting up early (or staying up late), eventually it isn’t an effort. It becomes normal.

I am not saying that even this brief post requires no effort on my part, but it doesn’t feel like something I have to do now. It doesn’t require a lot of courage. I don’t need to psych myself up or convince myself that it’s something that I really ought to do. It’s just something I am used to doing. I think of something to write about or find a photograph to post on my blog and I post it.

Now I’m sure I won’t post every single day, but that doesn’t matter. Unless I stop altogether, the habit will stay. For the remainder of the time that I am in lockdown, I have decided to work on a painting habit.