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Getting lost is both the plight and the joy of the artist… This getting lost cannot be faked. We cannot pretend to be lost. We cannot be quasi-lost. In order to possibly find that way out – in order to discover that thing previously unknown to us – we walk through the pitch-black darkness. We feel our hands against cave walls. We slip and fall. We bruise ourselves, blind to our own path.

The always-brilliant Dani Shapiro on the creative urgency of getting lost. Also see Rebecca Solnit on how we find ourselves by getting lost.

Shapiro’s Still Writing is indispensable not only for writers, but for anyone in a creative field. 

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merindab:

Die Vampire Die ~ Title of Show

Struggling to finish editing this book, and I needed to remind myself of this.

Been humming this the last couple days and I needed to remind myself.

(also if you’re a creative person [title of show] is an amazing musical)

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I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. Especially nowadays, it’s so easy to have a library of two thousand CDs, books and records. So many things. We’re used to having all of these finished works of art in our life that seem to arise out of nothing. I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it’s about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It’s funny how you create something and you think you’re going in a million different directions, and then the thing you end up with is the thing that you wanted to create your whole life, but you’re just as surprised by it as anybody else.

Jeff Mangum (x)
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Die Vampire Die ~ Title of Show

Struggling to finish editing this book, and I needed to remind myself of this.