Cultural norms and immutable laws are not the same things. Is our idea of breakfast holding us back?
Category: Making
Am I a writer yet?
What will it take for me to embrace (or feel like I’ve earned) a label like ‘writer’?
Clocking off
Clocks are great for getting to a train on time, but not so great for losing track of it, which is exactly what I need to make art.
I have a rule
Preferences can be bargained with, rules cannot. If you’ve got rules, people tend to generally abide by them, including yourself.
A choir needs four people
We don’t expect a single singer to be able to cover all four basic vocal ranges, so why do we expect it in most other fields?
Writing with a swiss army knife
How does one do focussed activity on a tool that’s designed for fast-twitch thinking?
What bad looks like
Whilst it’s instinctive to want to avoid unpleasant experiences, only by living through them do we learn the signals for avoiding them in the futurte.
The trade of vulnerability
There seems a universal law – the more you risk, the greater the reward. It governs everything we do from the obvious – gambling – to the less obvious – love. Putting ‘yourself’ out there takes courage because it means we’re making ourselves vulnerable. Vulnerable to attack. Vulnerable to critique. Vulnerable to making mistakes that people… Continue reading The trade of vulnerability
Efficient and Industrial
Is there a place for a little bit of industrialisation when it comes to art? And does it sacrifice the soul of the work?
The second perspective
Sometimes, trying harder isn’t the answer. Sometimes, we just have to walk away.