Advice to self

[kmo]

Start in the middle, loop back to the beginning, when you reach the middle you already wrote, scrap it and keep going from the beginning you looped back to. Write clean through to the end and then pour gasoline over the whole mess and make it sacred.

When the creativity really feels like it's flowing, you're most likely fooling yourself. Let it flow

Comments

[szaszhareen]

good advice. :) especially the "dont listen to advice" part. i think constantly about the bad advice i followed in my youth. "youll never make any money doing that". that was always what people said about my passion for music and art. "just get a job and make sure you can make some money, then try and do what you want." this is entirely ass backward. gaining skill in the arts that can be traded for money takes years of unpaid hard work. the best time to put in those years is when youre young and can still lean on others for support. so where am i now? slaving at some stupid job and desperately budgeting my few hours of spare time to gain creative skill. and frankly, getting nowhere fast.