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The only reliable ways I've found to maintain this vitality are collecting inspiration and writing. I notice that a certain pressure builds up inside me when I am not writing enough. Writing helps me unearth and resolve the self-sabotaging stories living inside me and helps me regain my creative confidence. Collecting inspiration charges my creativ... See more
Lauren Crichton • #82: Connecting dots, cultivating intention, and building a more human internet
establishing a consistent framework around your creative process. It is often the case that the more set in your personal regimen, the more freedom you have within that structure to express yourself.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
At the top of every creative log are two prompts—“For others” and “For me”—where I articulate the purpose of the writing.138 Filling these in helps me determine the writing’s fate, so I try to be as honest as possible. No answer is off limits. No reason too egoic. “Wanting to better understand my thinking” and “Wanting to better position myself as
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