Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
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Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
An essayist, a novelist, a memoirist, a historian, a poet, a comedian, a narrative philosopher, a songwriter, a screenwriter — in the search to find the edges of language, the writer finds temptations to learn all the sub-mediums.
the creator of any project should try to answer some variant of these questions: What does this teach? What does this solve? How am I entertaining? What am I giving? What are we offering? What are we sharing? In short: What are these people going to be paying for? If you don’t know—if the answer isn’t overwhelming—then keep thinking.
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Whereas I found that if my main motivation is to “accomplish” something or get a pitch accepted or get a poem accepted or whatever, then I end up chasing this idea of what a writer is supposed to be, instead of going back to the roots of myself. Ultimately, for me, poetry is just about being in communion with ideas and thoughts and trying to, yeah,
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