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I’ll write in spite of the fear
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“To get a good paper written, you only have to rewrite a good draft; to get a good draft written, you only have to turn a series of notes into a continuous text. And as a series of notes is just the rearrangement of notes you already have in your slip-box, all you really have to do is have a pen in your hand when you read.”
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Whenever I start a new project, a certain kind of empty, formless fear settles over me. The specific content of the fear depends on the medium:
If I’m writing: The fear that I have nothing to say. The fear that I will not be able to find anything to say, that there will be no argument or thesis at the core of what I’m doing. That I won’t be able to sustain the argument, over hundreds or thousands of words, in an elegant and even literary way.
If I’m designing: The fear that I cannot make something beautiful or useful. The fear that I cannot make it both beautiful and useful at once, that all I can do is uselessly generate something derivative, something that can’t possibly be useful to anyone.
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