Craft / Creative Process
by Salman Ansari · updated 1mo ago
Craft / Creative Process
- I’ve seen so many influencers advocating for people to quit their jobs and explore their passions to nurture creativity. It’s a terrible idea for many people pursuing creative projects. Most people are undisciplined. Large swaths of time to explore passions— or worse, find oneself— often leads to neuroticism, less productivity, laziness or even pa... See more
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He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.
from Seek funny leaps by Mason Currey
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- I think that being an artist ultimately is about searching for a kind of freedom, a freedom of spirit, and a freedom in making. The moment when that is possible comes at different times for different people. You should never give up, because being an artist—there’s no one path to it. It’s not like some other fields. If you’re an artist, you’re alwa... See more
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- Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol
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- "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
from Google
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- Use your tools to make things, don't make things about your tools. Technology and the end result are in a dance, one can never lead the other too long.
from MANIFESTO
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- But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
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