On clarifying your creative work by clarifying yourself
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On clarifying your creative work by clarifying yourself
When I feel confused about something, I write about it until I turn into the person who shows up on paper: a person who is plausibly trustworthy, intuitive, and clear.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false voices and wrong notes behind, and so underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are mean
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