Sheila Heti: Show what you think about all day
"I want writing and living to be one thing, so that writing is just me living, but on the page."
Working Methods
Advice from legendary artists to kickstart your creative process. Curated by Matt Ruby.
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Derek Thompson: Be seemingly surprising but quietly traditional
"Most of the time, audiences want to discover new things, but they are deeply enamored by familiar things."
Claire-Louise Bennett: Whatever is weird about you, do it more
Watch now | "Because if you do it more, it becomes something."
Billy Joel: Throw in some dissonant notes
"Suspensions are very effective because you want them to resolve — it creates a tension in the chord."
Gary Provost: Mix together short, medium, and long
"Don’t just write words. Write music."
Beth M. Howard: Don’t look ahead
Stay present/don't panic.
Verlyn Klinkenborg: Avoid volunteers
"The writer’s job isn’t accepting sentences. The job is making them, word by word."
fnnch: Seek the adjacent familiar
Humans like "something similar to what they already like but different in an interesting way."
Leonard Cohen: Discard the slogans
"It’s a kind of tyranny of a posture that exists today of what the right thing should be."
Sol LeWitt: Make your own uncool
"Practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO."