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“Every morning, you MUST love your whims and trust your whims, as you write anything and everything you desire, without shame, without purpose. Let it suck and let it be brilliant, too. Write way too much and then write too little. Feel hopeful and feel ashamed and understand that this is how you will live forever. Your brain is melodramatic. It wa
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What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
The Marginalianthemarginalian.org
On defining your own work
thecreativeindependent.com

In turn, we hosted countless musicians and friends at the Cloud Club, whether they were playing shows with us or not—it was a karmic couch-circle. I’d get photos emailed to me on the road of bands in the back garden, bands on the roof, bands in the bathtub. Bands left thank-you notes, drawings, books, CDs behind as gifts.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

I’m not a household name. I won’t go into the tedious specifics of what I do, but picture a woman who had success in several mediums at a young age and has continued very steadily, always circling her central concerns in a sort of ecstatic fugue state with the confidence that comes from knowing there is no other path—her whole life will be this sin
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