How to Finish What You Start

The artist’s guide to becoming a world-class finisher. <h2>Starting vs Finishing</h2> Most artists are good starters. We are a seemingly endless source of spontaneous brilliance—at least on our best days. This is a great skill for anything where the distance between the idea and the output is nearly instant. But what about other work? What about the type of work that requires more than just an in-the-moment burst of interestingness? What about work that requires more than just a good start? These past few weeks, like a lock turning into place and a bolt dropping away so that a door might suddenly swing open… I’ve realized the artist I want to become is not merely a prodigious starter of projects who excels in the moment, but a world-class finisher of extraordinary work. But how? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve created much work and finished impressive projects and won accolades and attention. <a href="https://read.cv/buckhouse" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">From the outside, I’m accomplished</a>. But that’s just how others see me. I secretly know that there is much more that I’d like to accomplish than what I have. Every artist knows this. My list of started, but unfinished, projects is long. You might have your own list. And while sometimes it’s important to let a project sit on the list until we are ready, other times the reasons a project remains unfinished are weak, counter-productive, or simply untrue. How do we change this? How might we create (and finish) our own best work? <a href="https://buckhouse.medium.com/how-to-finish-what-you-start-33694a6d23ad">Website</a>