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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
This is exactly why writing is slow. If you only measure time spent hammering out words, you’re missing most of it.
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@theinverse
Somewhere on the Mary Oliver/Neil Young continuum. Write everyday vs if you can't write a song in 5 minutes walk away. Patience for inspiration, but be there when it happens. Just my thoughts, and this is across mediums. I think about this a LOT! Love hearing other artists talk about this.
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arseniy
@arseniy.eth
For writing specifically, I think reading everyday is critical, especially challenging works. This is how one learns what’s worth writing in the first place. Its also humbling to know that some works took over a decade to fully plan, write, digest, revise etc
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@theinverse
Totally! Input of some sort for every medium, and I get that for writing. There was a time in my life where I read War and Peace in two translations. And now, I have kids. Some songwriters even take years to write songs. I think maybe Leonard Cohen. Don't quote me. Cheers, mad respect
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arseniy
@arseniy.eth
Absolute masterpieces can capture the entire world and range of human experience in them that you can read them forever and not feel like you’re missing much from not reading anything else. Imagine how much effort it takes to create something like that… humbling and inspiring
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@theinverse
I think, depending on proclivity, this could be said of any medium. It may take a month or a year to make an oil painting for example, but it takes a lifetime to paint that way or see the world that way. Art I feel is simply the expansion of human experience, hard for me to differentiate in terms of humility or respect
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@theinverse
That being said, if you can write like Joseph Mitchell... 🎩 off! Exalted misfits and common folk in a bygone era of New York. That is humbling for me.
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