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Kathy Acker was against creativity
“I set up this task, this nutty task basically, and I’d do it!”
Mar 18
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Mason Currey
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Melly Shum Forever
“Every city needs a monument to the problem of hating one’s job.”
Mar 4
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Mason Currey
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February 2024
Jane Bowles was vulnerable and strong
“I’ve got to do it my way and my way is more difficult than yours.”
Feb 19
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Mason Currey
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David Milch’s disembodied writing process
“I lie there on the floor and I talk and the words come up on the screen.”
Feb 5
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Mason Currey
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January 2024
Get rid of what your project needs
A peek into Céline Sciamma’s desire-driven process
Jan 22
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Mason Currey
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Finding “the flux” in 2024
With some help from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, circa 1969
Jan 8
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Mason Currey
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December 2023
The dumbest and best productivity trick
And why I’m rebelling against it anyway
Dec 11, 2023
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Mason Currey
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November 2023
Sharon Olds’s huge archive of thinking and feeling
“Clouds of meaning were rolling this way and that.”
Nov 27, 2023
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Mason Currey
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Mike Leigh’s gloriously inefficient filmmaking process
“I can’t tell you about the character because there is no character.”
Nov 13, 2023
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Mason Currey
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October 2023
Is the solution to a creative block ... sympathy?
“Your kindness is the breath of life to me.”
Oct 30, 2023
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Mason Currey
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Louise Glück on writer’s block
“I think everything good in my own work I owe to endurance.”
Oct 16, 2023
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Power doesn’t answer to the will
#Blocktober returns
Oct 2, 2023
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