This is a slide from designer/illustrator Christoph Niemann’s charming recent talk at Creative Mornings. Substitute “Sending Manuscript to Editor” for “Writing Invoice,” and you pretty much have the writing life. Watch the whole talk if you have a few minutes. (Via Brain Pickings.) For the record, I am currently mired in the agony of the concept stage … still.
Excellent! Its the same for architecture, except the fun stage is way smaller! And the bit where at the end is missing – where you forget just how hard the whole thing was and then do it all over again anyway. Like most things in life I guess! Now, back to my invoicing…
Wait, what about the part before you forget how miserable the whole thing was and you wallow in depression because you’ll never, ever have another idea again? That’s my personal favorite.