Go Ahead – Take the Fool's Journey

Pecking away for hours in solitude, wandering the wide and wicked landscape of your own imagination.
Believing that the stories you create will be read by anyone else. And that those stories will move the reader to feel, think or do something differently.
Daring to ask, again and again, for someone to take your writing and publish it.
Risking your own neck and publishing the damn book yourself.
For no promise of fiscal or social reward at all.
What kind of fool would do these things?
Millions of us.
The nerds who are thrilled by finding just the right word. The dunderheads who love to tell a good story and who even thrive on the challenge of telling a great story.
The dreamers who are so smitten with story that they are willing to invest their time, energy and heart in something that may never go anywhere at all.
It’s not just writers. It’s artists, entrepreneurs and parents who take this fool’s journey of creativity.
Because to not heed the call to embark on the fool’s journey of creativity is to live the life of regret, sorrow and loss.
Go ahead. Be a fool. Dare to write that story, sing that song, have that baby. Build that business, go for it.
Even if you don’t get published, don’t earn a dime, don’t become famous, you’ve stood up for your original impulse.
And there’s nothing foolish about that.
The fools who dare, who risk, are the ones we admire. We relish their daring. We applaud their willingness to take a stand. We adore the wildly imaginative things they’ve created.
Be a fool. Let your creativity run wild.
A great resource for coping with the fears and challenges of the fool’s journey is the book Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields.
It’s a very helpful hand-holding through the many unknowns in the creative process.