Creation
i interviewed louis partridge (of disclaimer acclaim/ olivia rodrigo’s beans on toast lover) late last year- an actor who is as sweet as he is talented and clear-eyed- and he said something that stuck with me that i wish i could have squeezed into the piece:
believing that you can achieve perfection as an actor feels vain…thinking that you are... See more
believing that you can achieve perfection as an actor feels vain…thinking that you are... See more
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Perfectionism
The ego of insecurity
The external neediness of the ego
Worthiness as care to you, your work, and others (as they don’t bear the burden of catering to your ego’s need)
They write. They host book clubs. They post Substack essays (ahem). They debate kindly, disagree well, and connect ideas across time, culture, and emotion.
You don’t just absorb knowledge, you remix it.
That’s when it becomes part of you.
You don’t just absorb knowledge, you remix it.
That’s when it becomes part of you.
Investigation: The form and importance of fiction
Time freedom, time sovereignty, goes beyond spending it on loved ones or pleasures. In terms of first priority, I am in need of time to pray. Do you see the feedback loop? I get time; I gift it to my imagination. Me and my mind and my Benevolent Divine, we sit in contemplative prayer and focused acquisition of our greater desires. The focus yields... See more
The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!
I am not crazy. Or maybe I am. It doesn’t matter. This is what matters.
Science requires deviant thinking.
Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
youtu.beAnna Howard - Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
Four Things To Gain Confidence in Before Opening Your Work to a Wide Range of Feedback: (without these things, create relentlessly to yourself, keep it to yourself)
-Integrity— you believe in yourself. Find your voice, make a lot of work, then destroy it.
-Neutrality— get to a point where you’re as neutral about positive feedback as you are about negative feedback. Understand that others’ reactions to your work is not a direct reflection of your value or your works’ value
-Conviction — “conviction defines great artists.” Believe in what you’re putting out, that you’re being honest, that it’s not a half hearted truth. It comes with time, experience, and knowledge. Know what you believe.
-Curiosity — don’t qualify your art as content. Your anxiety can be switched to curiosity by asking yourself, “what might I discover?” Prioritize exploring over threat detection. Negative responses and interrogations from a general audience do not need to be immediately defended from your core. Instead, try asking a question in response, turning the conversation back outwards. This is not a deflection of genuine reflection, but an exercise in protection and quality assurance when considering who will impact your creative process (spoiler, it shouldn’t be every schmuck on the internet)
AI will finish what the
smartphones have begun. It will make
creation frictionless. Images, melodies,
essays produced in seconds, customized
for every taste. At this point, the
screen will be saturated with beauty
that means nothing. The act of making
will lose its aura because everyone will
be able to do it. But abundance doesn't
satisfy. It dilutes. When... See more
smartphones have begun. It will make
creation frictionless. Images, melodies,
essays produced in seconds, customized
for every taste. At this point, the
screen will be saturated with beauty
that means nothing. The act of making
will lose its aura because everyone will
be able to do it. But abundance doesn't
satisfy. It dilutes. When... See more
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I long for the physical proximity of other artists who create with intention. I appreciate anyone who creates with their hands but I want to be surrounded by those who see what they do as a craft and a process of being, who strike that balance between taking their craft seriously and not taking themselves so seriously. I want to know what they read, where they went on the river, what scrap of magazine caught their love and sparked their inspiration. Let us create a mosaic out of our intention and the people around us. Let us see each other.
But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things. Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires attention to detail and persistence in the face of failure: that’s why it’s called a ‘discipline’. Every painting fails... See more
Brian Rutenberg
First novel syndrome: trying to make the book contain the entire world
And the antidote: getting very comfortable expressing a particular facet of creation. which necessarily omits so much, and contains even more because of it
A good book, a good adventure, a good plot, isn’t a sermon. It isn’t the answers to every problem in the whole world, it isn’t a perfect, mirror-like recreation of the world. It’s a conversation. It’s an exploration, and just try exploring two forests at once. It’s a few perspectives on answering a question. It’s anxiety, love, fear, conviction about one or two things, mainly, and most importantly the humanity of wrestling with them.