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This book is everything my generation doesn’t know that it needs. We’ve all been fed the “starving artist” myths since infancy and they are just complete and utter bull, invented by a capitalistic patriarchal society that wants only the people in power to have a voice.
Okay, so that’s an extreme sort of example, but I just get so angry about this stuff. All the people who told me when I was a kid that being a writer wasn’t “practical” or I’d never be able to make a living off it (implying that my writing would never be good enough to earn me a living, of course). Can we instead nurture creativity in our children? Can we trust them to be practical but also to chase inspiration and novelty and joy?
I think we can. And I think this collection of essays is a great place to start. If you’re a blocked writer, if you’ve ever felt like you don’t suffer enough for your art, if you feel caught up in the capitalistic standards of productivity and output, you should read this book.
I read it over time, a couple essays a night, and that was the perfect way to really digest the content. It gave me time to think, time to ruminate, and time to apply the concepts to my own writing and my feelings about my writing and myself.
I recommend this book to any writer, no matter what you write. Creativity is magical, and should be cherished. This book will help you remember how to do that.
Okay, so that’s an extreme sort of example, but I just get so angry about this stuff. All the people who told me when I was a kid that being a writer wasn’t “practical” or I’d never be able to make a living off it (implying that my writing would never be good enough to earn me a living, of course). Can we instead nurture creativity in our children? Can we trust them to be practical but also to chase inspiration and novelty and joy?
I think we can. And I think this collection of essays is a great place to start. If you’re a blocked writer, if you’ve ever felt like you don’t suffer enough for your art, if you feel caught up in the capitalistic standards of productivity and output, you should read this book.
I read it over time, a couple essays a night, and that was the perfect way to really digest the content. It gave me time to think, time to ruminate, and time to apply the concepts to my own writing and my feelings about my writing and myself.
I recommend this book to any writer, no matter what you write. Creativity is magical, and should be cherished. This book will help you remember how to do that.