Tag: bird by bird
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A One Inch Picture Frame
In her brilliant book, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott describes a piece of her writing routine that has had a great impact on me. She outlines, for the reader, a day of languishing at her desk, thinking about anything and everything but the book she is trying to write. “I start to think about learning…
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Quantity Masks Crudity
Even crude work becomes impressive in high enough quantity. Like Jason Polan’s Every Person in New York. Pretty much anything becomes impressive or beautiful to us humans in high enough quantity. LEGO clone troopers. Layers of paint. Words repeated a 100,000 times in a row. Sometimes, if you find yourself struggling to create a singular…