The block is hard.
I won’t tell you that it isn’t difficult to push through.
But I won’t tell you it’s impossible either.
Be grateful for it.
Every marathon has a wall.
There is no formula for you to break through, except for your own sheer force of will.
If it were easy to do, what you are trying to do wouldn’t be special at all.
Nobody congratulates you for breathing.
With enough time and pressure, coal can become a diamond.
And while that is true, more coal is burned to power other things than is ever cut into diamonds.
Whether you are sacrificed to the seam of flame, or put through the pain of refinement before you are able to shine…
your art is yours until you let other people take it from you.
Do it because you can’t breathe without it.
Not because you want to be seen doing it.
Choose your quest carefully.
It will need to be fought for before it is able to stand on its own.
-artifex, cura te ipsum