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As writers, we choose to write again and again, even with all the suffering of fear and resistance, and I like to think that the ancient craft of writing also chooses us with the same stubborn patience... that your writing wants to be written by you .
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Creative work as a partnership between disciplined human labor and mysterious inspiration, rejecting passive muse-worship and total control.
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And for me, the reason that is not a scary idea is because I don't ascribe to a sort of narrow view of the muse that says, I mean, I think that the two ways that artists are usually given to look at their work is either you are the servant of the muse, right? You're just a hand puppet. Or you are dominating that thing.
Like, you know, Nabokov said,
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So to be human beings, which is very different from animals and other species, we need to behave as if we are not animal. Right, exactly. Yeah, so in this culture, we have been alienating ourselves from animal nature so that we can differentiate ourselves from other species like animals or plants.
Maybe this is related to monoistic gut culture or Ab
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