It’s easier to recognize beauty than it is to create it. You’re good enough to know that what you’re doing isn’t good, but not good enough to produce something great. When you find yourself in this frustrating limbo, the challenge is to never forget what got you there in the first place. Remember that thing that got you into the game.
When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’
i have always wondered what it was about her that drove so many young women to cultish admiration. was it her death, our culture’s morbid fascination with tragedy and the white victim? or did it speak to something else, something more hidden? my theory in observing how the white writers of this moment have reacted to the world we are watching burn... See more
An exercise I would guide my younger creative self through:
1. Make a list of your favorite works
2. List out everything bad, janky, poorly done etc about them
3. Notice how this does not diminish your love for the works
4. realize... See more