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As James Baldwin said writing needs to arrive "to the bone": don't overthink it, don't overcomplicate it. You need to have something to say and for me it's essential to have a genealogy of cultural references to draw on from.
Lastly stop thinking to write a masterpiece no one has ever said b4 because I do think that's impossible. Stop worrying.
Oct 1, 2024
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Writing… Ideas…
One minute it flows out of you wildly - forcefully vomited thoughts that can’t be contained so they must be spilled. Ink to paper, notes app paragraphs.
Other times it can feel like beating your head against a wall repeatedly and still never breaking through to the other side - blood trickling down your forehead and all.
I truly don’t think there is any solution for this. Whatever your creative pursuit, the process will always feel painstaking until miraculously one day it doesn’t.
Unfortunately you don't get to choose when inspiration hits you like an tonne of bricks and before you know it the feeling is long gone.
Sometimes I like to write all my thoughts down in a stream of consciousness. It doesn't have to make any sense, and it usually doesn’t.
If you’re lucky you may find something in that chain of unfiltered thoughts that makes a lot of sense when recontextualized.
Be messy, because you’re never going to be perfect. It doesn’t always work out, but what else are you going to do about it?
Just write.
May 16, 2025
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in a world where it's too easy to be told what to think (scrolling) or get automated outputs to prove to others that we have thought (gpt), take some time to really wrestle with yourself! writing is an ongoing but worthy battle. put one thought down, add something contradictory a bit later, then figure out the blend of the two that will convey what you truly believe and mean. write to the bone!!!! it's hard stuff but i really believe we all need to do it....
May 30, 2025
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I was told when I started that you just had to be disciplined and do it regularly until it’s as necessary for you as brushing your teeth.
I was also told the really good writing/insight happens after you’ve written the surface stuff away. Like you gotta write everything that comes to mind, throw that away, and then everything after that, which is usually much more difficult, is actually good journaling.
Apr 27, 2024
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Remember that you did everything you could in order to get through
give yourself grace and peace, drink water and do some big deep breaths.
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His films are so funny and smart and calculated. It's all about the sinister nature of humanity and fears. They're not at all boring and they're super classic genre so.
Oct 26, 2024