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Today, instead of working some more on my book, that I aim to 'finish' in the next 6 days ( preferably a little earlier ), I recorded another podcast episode.

The urge to record came to me, intuitively, after receiving some friendly feedback on my podcast and creative process from @selfhelp4trolls - one of the friendliest trolls on the blockchain who tends to be one of my No. 1 fans ( luckily for me, unlike Kathy Bates' character in the movie Misery,. That is, he doesn't (threaten to) break my legs if I don't rewrite my book's ending ).

So, I did not work on my book today, eventhough the target date ( aka my mom's 70th bday) that I decided on, 22 days ago, is approaching rapidly.

It's okay. That's just how I roll.

I will find a way to finish it, kind of.

And no, I'm not gonna pull an all-nighter, sleep is underrated and I'm not the best sleeper.

I basically have a day or two left, tomorrow and Monday, as I am going to Lisbon on the 18th and will fly to The Netherlands the next day. I probably need to recover from my trip, on the 20th, and - at the same time - find a way to print my book, that day, in order to have at least one copy ready to hand out to my mom on her special day.

I also planned to not bring my laptop along. I am traveling very light and want to have some sort of holiday feeling ( although I won't promise not to post, there's always the option to use Ecency on my phone and I'm addicted to this space ;<) ). So that might complicate things a little more.

Anyhow, I'll send as finished a version as possible to my email, before I leave my place and I'll probably have to make do with that.

Not finishing things is also pretty much my middle name or should I say first name? My name is Vincent not FINcent.

And, once again, and this isn't the first time I've mentioned this ( I'm sure I talked about this in my podcast, before, things are finished when you decide that they are. I will have a first finished version of my book ready on the 21st and then I'll see, afterward, where I take it from there.

That is the beauty of the natural creative process, going with the flow and always being flexible.

Anyhow, you can listen to the podcast here.

Tonight, just before writing this post, I had a little fun with editing the episode.

Although, in all honesty, I still edit as little as possible. I merely add fragments, record them directly, in the 'Spotify for Podcasters' app and I wing them all in a single take, unless the background noise is too extreme.

This show is not about perfection, in fact I embrace the beauty of imperfection.

Which brings me back to the topic of this post and the reason I decided to share it in the Art. community.

Yesterday, I did some thinking about what I consider real art, genuine creativity, and I wrote down the following words. Words that could very well be describing most of my work as well as the way I create:

consistently inconsistent
constantly distracted
perfectly imperfect
flexibly stubborn
naturally disorganized
predictably impredictable

I'm proud to be all of the above.

Because of this, I have often been misunderstood, fired, quit jobs, felt guilty, undervalued and struggled loads but I'm working on owning it all and turning it into the best of both worlds and it seems like I'm slowly getting there.

I have always been naturally creative, an artist and it feels good to finally be able to be myself, without holding back
_{aside from the tiniest of bits}

Thank you @clareartista for starting this community!