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🌻 Audience of One
If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between c... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Writing as Communion
The question I’m really asking, I realize now, is how to be human. When I write, or read, or paint, I am more of a human than I am a gadget. The words you are reading I first put down in longhand using a sharpened pencil. While I was writing, I did not check my email. At such moments, I feel I’m myself rather than a body attached to a buzzing phone... See more
Amitava Kumar • How Daily Record-Keeping Changed My Life
“The other kind of growth.” This is a title idea for an essay or book on the challenge of a Kunstlerroman (a story about a developing artist) within the high-pressure and incentive-warped landscape of the Internet. This came after reading a few pages on “The Death of the Artist” (or something like that) which featured an honest interview with Austi
... See moreI wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself.
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more