 Some days my writing looks less like pen on paper and more like finding patterns of clouds in the sky.
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 Some days my writing looks less like pen on paper and more like gazing at street art in the city. I originally began my first book Stereometry as a short story collection. If you know anything about the project, then you know that the book is starkly not that. To be fair, my first short story collection didn’t go anywhere, so I was eager to start fresh.
But it just wasn’t working. On a emotional level. On a structure level. On an everything-level. So after dragging my feet awhile (a whole year in fact) I started making small changes. First, I rewrote the stories as they had actually happened, essentially converting Stereometry to nonfiction. It was getting closer, but it still wasn’t there. Over time, and little by little, I kept trying to solve the problem. After a lot of gradual changes, Stereometry became a highly conceptual, genre-queer, lyrically poetic manuscript. This is all to say that innovation happens when we make the choice to do something different. As an artist, this can be an incredibly daunting choice, especially when we’ve put our everything into this one thing. Sure, we have goals to create the next masterpiece, but in reality, innovation happens a little at a time. It doesn’t always work. This was a hard thing for me to grasp. See, creativity doesn’t always lead to innovation, but innovation always begins with creativity. Choosing to do something different and making an effort to be open to small changes when we need to solve a creative problem is where the magic happens. |
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