What Is This?
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What Is This?
It seems impossible. But then again, aren’t all creative undertakings rooted in processes that remain mysterious to the creator? Artists have long understood that making is an elusive endeavor, one that makes the artist porous to larger forces that seem to arise from outside herself.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Great Expectations When beginning a new project, we’re often met with anxiety. It visits almost all of us no matter how experienced, successful, or well-prepared we might be.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
So the long-term solution is to just get used to the assembling-an-IKEA-bookshelf wobbliness when you start something. I usually feel like that pain is worth it, because you end up with something that’s realer, or at least more interesting, than what you started out with.
Charlie Jane Anders • Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
Right now the Metalabel squad is in the throes of the creative process of something you’ll see in the Fall. We’re excited about what we’re working on but we’re also in the thick of it. We still don’t know where it will all lead.
Some days the not-knowing is agonizing. The first time I experienced the feeling came while building Kickstarter, and it o... See more
Some days the not-knowing is agonizing. The first time I experienced the feeling came while building Kickstarter, and it o... See more
I see hundreds, actually thousands, of online writing courses popping up on the Internet. Nearly all of them involve some cohort based model that trains people on how to write consistently for an online audience (for engagement).
The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
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The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
Life... See more