creation is chaotic
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
Substack • Notes | Substack
Creativity 3 | Are.na
are.na
So much of my writing practice is simply about writing when the urge to write strikes. If I miss that window or assume it will stick around and wait for me to be ‘ready’ (always a poor assumption), I lose the potential energy of that idea forever. It’s not that I’ll never be able to write again, or perhaps even never write an idea *like that* again... See more
I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too. Plenty of space. I decided that I would need to build an expansive enough interior life that my fear and my creativity could peacefully coexist, since it appeared that they would always be together.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
You belong to the world
by Carrie Fountain
as do your children, as does your husband.
It’s strange even now to understand that
you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts
were given to you and that you received them,
fond as you’ve always been of declining
invitations. You belong to the world. The hands
that put a peach tree into the earth exactly
where
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I started off by asking him whether there is a unifying theme to his seemingly diffuse life’s work, which has included old-school magazines and books, bleeding-edge technology, conservationism, photographing Asia, and teaching. “Following my interests,” he said simply.
It sounded awfully cutesy for someone so accomplished. I said that there is an... See more
It sounded awfully cutesy for someone so accomplished. I said that there is an... See more
When we look at the evolution of creativity, one story that can be told is that it was a concept designed to extricate divine procreative power from women and give it to men.