Honeydew — what works
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Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they’ve started work on a project-say, a book—but some time passes, and when you politely ask how it’s going, they tell you that they’re still researching. Weeks, months, years pass and they
Whenever I start a new project, a certain kind of empty, formless fear settles over me. The specific content of the fear depends on the medium:
If I’m writing: The fear that I have nothing to say. The fear that I will not be able to find anything to say, that there will be no argument or thesis at the core of what I’m doing. That I won’t be able to... See more
If I’m writing: The fear that I have nothing to say. The fear that I will not be able to find anything to say, that there will be no argument or thesis at the core of what I’m doing. That I won’t be able to... See more
In Bird by Bird, the novelist Anne Lamott elegantly captures this rhythm of creation. “You find yourself back at the desk, staring blankly at the pages you filled yesterday. And there on page four is a paragraph with all sorts of life in it, smells and sounds and voices and colors,” she writes. “You don’t care about those first three pages; those
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