> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thisreidwrites.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Practice = Progress (daily video) - URL: https://thisreidwrites.com/practice-progress-daily-video/ - Published: 2026-10-17T20:41:57.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-17T20:41:57.000Z - Description: Do you still want to make art? Then it’s time to break your method down, or it will not survive these terrible times. - Author: Ruthanne Reid, Author - Tags: Daily Videos, the creative process Do you still want to make art? Then it’s time to break your method down, or it will not survive these terrible times. 🎥 **I make pep-talk videos for struggling creatives every single day. If you want to be reminded that you are not alone, follow me below:* [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@ruthannereid) [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/ruthannereid.bsky.social) [Mastodon](https://wandering.shop/@ruthannereid) [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@ruthannereid) [Instagram](https://instagram.com/ruthannereid) ## ROUGH TRANSCRIPT Welcome back creatives. Ruthanne Reid here, author and stroke survivor to help you get out of block and into a daily habit of creation. So I'm one of those people who doesn't look sick even though I am chronically ill with everything from arthritis onwards. I don't look sick. I am though. And so this informs how I have to create. Why am I telling you this? Well, not for pity. I'm telling you this because the reality of my physical situation put me in a position where I could not do most of the get- out of block programs around me. I couldn't do 500 words a day. It was physically impossible. I couldn't even do 250 words a day. I couldn't even follow the Patchet principle. It was an awful place to be, especially when the two strokes, you know, confused all of my words. So, I could no longer write because I wasn't making any sense. A real benefit came from this. I had to break down the act of creation and what it looked like to have a creative habit to its very core before I could find a way that I could do it no matter what. And as a result, I have a creative program that I can do no matter what. This is what I'm trying to share with you completely free because I want you to create. When I give you these two rules, make one new thing every single day and let that thing be tiny and terrible. I'm not just saying that randomly. These are actually based on a lot of research both into neurology and into psychology. If you make the effort to create something every single day, you are informing your brain that the parts of it that invent stuff need to be in shape, need to be workable, they have to be streamlined because your system is actually trying to keep you alive. It will preserve energy to keep you alive. So if you're doing something regularly that takes effort, it's going to try to make that thing easier to preserve energy for other things. Similarly, we tend to stop in the middle of our own creation because what's coming out is not good. We don't like it. We it's not what we wanted to make. It's ugly. It's it's it's amateur. We stop creating then. So we don't give it the chance to ever become anything else. Practice is how you get good at art. But you cannot practice if you do not give yourself permission to go ahead and make crap. Even making bad art is fine because you're just going to trigger your problemsolving brain which starts to analyze why it's bad. And if you keep going, you will be able to correct that. It's good. It's growth. I know there are a lot of challenges in this world. Things are against us. But we do not have to stop creating just because it's hard to do. It is worth that effort. And you can get unblocked and you can create a daily habit. Make one new thing, let it be terrible, and the next day repeat. Sit down with me and together let's make something new.