The Secret to Finishing Creative Projects with Lee Starfield

So here's the first thing I'll say, and then we'll probably pull some cards for this.

So I'm sensing into this whole creation process for you, and there's both the true feeling of, "Ugh, I don't want this to end." Like, I just...

Like, when I think about you going through your process and finishing with an article or a zine, there truly is this feeling of, "I don't want this play to end," or, "I don't want this process to end," which quite frankly is a gift because a lot of artists and a lot of writers don't like the process at all, you know? Like, they're like, they just wanna get to the goal, or, or we're so indoctrinated that we're all supposed to finish the thing, have it be perfect, you know.

And also, what I'm sensing into is this fear, this fear of finishing.

But it's layered.

For you, this is just what I'm sensing into, and you can tell me what's really going on, 'cause you know you much better than I do.

It's not just the fear of putting things out into the world, which is very normal.

This is very much what I work with people around, and this is very much...

Weirdly, it's not my problem, and that's why I think I can help people with it.

I have other problems, don't you worry, but, like, getting-

[laughs]

... stuff out there isn't necess- I have many, many problems.

But getting stuff out into the world is not one of them.

And what I'm sensing into is, sure, there's that vulnerability.

Sure, there's that worry or that anxiousness around things being perceived, but what I'm also sensing into is a couple of different things, and you can tell me.

The first is not always knowing when something is finished or when something is meant to be finished, especially when in the inspiration phase of things, you have a lot of inspiration.

It could go he- like, I see your mind as this, like, rainbow web, so it could go like this, and it could go like this, and then there's this, and then there's this thing.

And so it seems to be a bit of a struggle of a kind of structure or a kind of...

Yeah, just a kind of ending, like figuring out when the...

It's almost like in your mind and creative projects is akin to that movie The NeverEnding Story.

Have...

Do you know that?

Yes.

I was just thinking about The NeverEnding Story today.

You know, you just want things to keep going, like, on and on 'cause you like it, and you like what you're doing, and you always have more things to say or more angles.