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Totally insane and truly helpful
The best creativity advice I've read in ages—plus, enroll now in Worm School Extension 🪱🎓
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Mason Currey
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The truest thing I’ve ever read about making art
From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling
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Van Gogh’s advice to a young artist
“In order to write a book, do a deed, paint a picture with some life in it, one has to be alive oneself.”
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Mason Currey
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Know your creative cycle
Worm School, week seven
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Mason Currey
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David Milch’s disembodied writing process
“I lie there on the floor and I talk and the words come up on the screen.”
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Mason Currey
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Get rid of what your project needs
A peek into Céline Sciamma’s desire-driven process
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Mason Currey
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Bernadette Mayer will give you ideas
On the late American poet’s irrepressible confident weirdness
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Mason Currey
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Making art is like setting a trap
Philip Larkin on constructing “the device”
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The artist’s life is the hardest life of all?
“Everything up in the air and working hopeless"
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Mason Currey
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Samuel Johnson and the art of procrastination
Or how to write 1,800 words an hour
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Mason Currey
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Petrarch got up every morning at midnight
“I regard sleep as a kind of death, my bed as a tomb.”
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Mason Currey
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Phil Stutz on his string-of-pearls theory of work (and life)
Some motivational advice from Jonah Hill’s therapist
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