2 moments from yesterday:
sunrise.
+ reading the interview with Nicolle Elizabeth in the fictionaut blog, about her new chapbook 'Threadbare von Barren'. and coming across this line, her answer to the question “how do you stay creative – what are you tricks to get “unstuck”?
"Michael Cunningham once said to me ‘a day that we write is completely different than a day that we don’t,’ and there is nothing untrue about this sentiment. Chains are in your mind, man. We’re not sculptors of rock, we don’t require huge easels in carrying cases. Find an eyeliner, find a cocktail napkin, and put something down. It’ll save you. As for advice on how to do this other than having an over-bearing amount of nerve, I’d say go to your books. Pull a work, simply put, that you love. Something that drove you so crazy you wanted to eat it, and read a few sentences. It’ll light the path. You will bring you home. Your love of literature will bring you home." (link)
it loved those: "a day that we write". and: "you will bring you home".
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1 comment:
Yes, I think there is an awful lot of truth in: "A day that we write is completely different than a day that we don't."
I always know when I have not written in a day. Sooner or later it comes back to haunt me. In fact I can go as far as to say: I am a different person on a day I do not read or write. I guess I have not come home. :-)
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