Category: General
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structure & narrative
Turns out that sometimes the old, non-metaphorical form of cut’n’paste is the only way to zoom out from the details of a complex story and see how you might fit it all together and make it work. I like to think I’m leaving this for myself as a sort of warning regarding excessive creative ambition,…
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the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth
Apparently it was Gilles Deleuze’s birthday yesterday, so big thanks for BIG OTHER coughing up a selection of quotes by the man himself, among which this one was the one that I really needed to read today: Creation takes place in bottlenecks…A creator who isn’t grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is…
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the dissonance is a kind of messenger
This from Mandy Brown was exactly what I needed to read this morning: … the dissonance that can happen when you come back to work after some time away is a kind of messenger. It’s so easy when caught up in the day to day to become complacent about your own needs; it’s nearly a…
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books read 2022
Yep, it’s that time of year again. 103 books finished (of which 20 were graphic novels); dates indicate when I finished reading; one asterisk means a re-read, two asterisks a second re-read, three asterisks a many-times-re-reading; a zero indicates a book left unfinished. Graphic novels Maggie the Mechanic Jaime Hernandez 19 Jan * The Girl…
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that was the year that was
Navel-gazey reflective end-of-year stuff; feel free to skip! The Practice A(nother) year in notebooks… the thicker one is a kind of catch-all/commonplace book, and the two thin ones topmost are specifically work-focussed, but the rest are morning pages only, the dedicated medium of the Practice, of which this has been the fifth full year. The…