When you draw with ink, you must commit to whichever way the ink flows.
Wherever each stroke falls, there it must lie, and there it should lie. The ink makes no mistakes. Follow where the ink flows, and seek not to rescind any stroke, for no stroke of the pen can be revoked.
The first lines mark your course, and there must your other strokes follow. Seek not to see too far ahead, for you cannot see the grand vision conceived by the ink, for its vision is beyond the bounds of mortal minds. Wherever any stroke falls, there you must follow.
Commit to follow the will of the ink, for the ink knows best. There is no flaw, no imperfection, no error save it be your attempts to deviate from the course set by the ink.
There are no faulty strokes save it be those that attempt to correct the course of the ink. Stray from the lines set by your pen, and you will find only ugliness and failure. Soulless, lifeless lumps, mockeries of creation, are all that result from one’s efforts to correct the course of the ink or else to subvert it for the purposes of bringing about one’s own finite vision.
The only perfection that may be found is that which follows the will of the ink.
There are no errors other than deviating from the will of the ink.
And in the end, if you follow the ink’s course with all perfectness, you’ll find yourself presented with a reality more rich and beautiful than any which you could have manufactured by your own deliberate efforts, nor even imagined within the rigid walls of your rational mind.
The only deliberate effort that matters is that which shuts out the rational mind and instead strives with every breath to follow the supernal whimsy of the ink. Your desires, your visions, your ideals—all are only finite.
But the ways and possibilities of the ink are endless.
Obey the will of the ink.
Have you ever set pen to paper and just let the ink take over? How’d it go? Let me know in the comments! Also, share this senseless babble with your friends. All proceeds go toward fathoming the fathomless will of the ink. Really.