self expression
Lynda Barry Full X Page Exercise
youtube.comSo 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
By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
for the Festival Queen music video I went to a dance studio with @nissaleor and @cl_fletcher and was basically like “dance as hard as you can to this song” and then I got the actual best dance show of my life while I filmed.
to make this scene I took several movement loops from the footage, painted over the frames,... See more
instagram.comMy soul, when I tend to it, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”
Haley Nahman • #197: What is "personal style"?
darkness as we go in that territory, again, is the domain of dreaming and It's the domain of image making. It's the domain of mystery and the gestation and the creativity and the incubation, that we need to be able to, to work with.
Otter Voice Meeting Notes
Francis Weller
It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My... See more