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Petrarch got up every morning at midnight
“I regard sleep as a kind of death, my bed as a tomb.”
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Mason Currey
28
Writing is bouldering, bouldering is writing
On “eking out a delicate gift laboriously”
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Mason Currey
38

March 2024

Kathy Acker was against creativity
“I set up this task, this nutty task basically, and I’d do it!”
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Mason Currey
11
Melly Shum Forever
“Every city needs a monument to the problem of hating one’s job.”
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Mason Currey
33

February 2024

Jane Bowles was vulnerable and strong
“I’ve got to do it my way and my way is more difficult than yours.”
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Mason Currey
18
David Milch’s disembodied writing process
“I lie there on the floor and I talk and the words come up on the screen.”
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Mason Currey
69

January 2024

Get rid of what your project needs
A peek into Céline Sciamma’s desire-driven process
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Mason Currey
35
Finding “the flux” in 2024
With some help from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, circa 1969
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Mason Currey
24

December 2023

The dumbest and best productivity trick
And why I’m rebelling against it anyway
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Mason Currey
107

November 2023

Sharon Olds’s huge archive of thinking and feeling
“Clouds of meaning were rolling this way and that.”
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Mason Currey
63
Mike Leigh’s gloriously inefficient filmmaking process
“I can’t tell you about the character because there is no character.”
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Mason Currey
38

October 2023

Is the solution to a creative block ... sympathy?
“Your kindness is the breath of life to me.”
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Mason Currey
46
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