the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
sari and
the start of an idea
We started raw; our hearts and minds got boiled by constraints, mistakes, feedback, and challenges; these days we’re calmly cleaning up.
iA Writer 5: From Raw to Cooked to Sushi
"Paying rapt attention, whether to a trout stream or a novel, a do-it-yourself project or a prayer, increases your capacity for concentration, expands your inner boundaries, and lifts your spirits, but more important, it simply makes you feel that life is worth living." (Winifred Gallagher, Rapt)
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.comsari and
“I always say ‘beginnings are easy, endings are hard’. Beginnings get easier and easier [because] there's so much technological assistance [and] so many ways of getting something started like rhythm machines and chord pattern makers.
There are a lot of ways of getting something pretty respectable going quite early on. To quote Picasso, ‘there's... See more
There are a lot of ways of getting something pretty respectable going quite early on. To quote Picasso, ‘there's... See more
the case for slow and anti-hype, via Brian Eno