Ursula K. Le Guin on How You Make Something Good in Creative Work
There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
having an idea is not enough; that you must work until you are able to recreate your experience effectively in words on the page.
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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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