About Your Writing: On Commodifying Your Experiences by Steve Adams
In the end, writing should be a way to experience and explore your life, as well as others.
In the end, writing should be a way to experience and explore your life, as well as others.
But artists, and especially writers, can get caught by overthinking.
Perfectionism truly is “the oppressor,” and writers often don’t even know that this is what they’re battling, as it tends to come disguised.
You’re out on the high wire, where all the good writing, all the good art, always is.
How can my small personal imperfect work possibly matter when the world seems aflame?
Fewer, more precise words, deliver your moment with more impact and clarity.
If you’re game, the study of acting can really help a writer.
Amazing endings are less often amazing because of what happens there, than because what happens there seems the logical conclusion of everything that came before it.
Your doing this, your creating some boundaries and showing up to do your writing will train your loved ones, as well as you, as to what that time at your desk means.
If you do your best work, you won’t be able to predict how it will act in the world, or upon the world. And this is good, because it may be smarter than you. It might do better work if you’re out of the way.