on writing
you are what you do, not what you post
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The Yale Review: Where does an essay begin for you—how does it crystallize from thought to form?
Audrey Wollen: A hunch, usually based on a glimmering coincidence inside a text, or a joke buried deep within myself, a joke I would struggle to explain to anyone else, which means it’s not really a joke at all, more like a secret internal wink, almost a... See more
Audrey Wollen: A hunch, usually based on a glimmering coincidence inside a text, or a joke buried deep within myself, a joke I would struggle to explain to anyone else, which means it’s not really a joke at all, more like a secret internal wink, almost a... See more
Shirley Jackson: Memory and Delusion
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A life in constant potential.
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Creativity is inherently anti-authoritarian. As in: to be successfully creative, you have to shed the part of yourself that desperately wants reassurance. It’s only then that you can escape cliche and escape paradigmatic thinking.
Author Pip Adam on keeping faith in the project – The Creative Independent
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I feel a bit self-conscious that I’ve cycled through so many jobs, but it’s the nature of being an artist and working. It’s difficult to find a job you can put everything into and still have time and energy for writing.
Die Scham, viele Jobs und Karrierepfade begonnen und abgebrochen zu haben, ich identifiziere mich damit sehr. Es ist beruhigend zu hören „so ist das eben als Artist“. Gibt mir legitimization.
a work of fiction can have a thesis statement, just like an essay, but it isn’t necessarily interested in answering that thesis statement. That helped me heaps. I write to try to understand things that confuse me.
Premise ja, aber es geht nicht darum eine Frage zu beantworten, sondern es kann sich daran orientiert werden.