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“PROCESS”

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I've been feeling like a creative failure lately. There's an essay in my head, it seems like an important one, and I've been trying to push it out of my head and onto a computer screen, and it's clawing at the walls and biting my hands when I come near. Blegh blegh blegh. I can't work. I can sort of force myself to work, but it's not flowing the way it flows when it's actually flowing. (And then the little demons crawl in and ask whether the final product will even be worth all of the effort, or if I'm just wasting my life and nobody will care etc etc..) Today I ended up seeing Midnight In Paris and then the Pixar documentary, and the back-to-back Hemingway and Lasseter made me want to go Create Great Things, and then I thought about how my Great Things are going and instead I just want to bury myself in the backyard. Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 22:16:28 To: CG I'm still in Bolinas. It's windy and lonely. I'm taking a break from Flux Garden to work on a crazy interactive essay thing, which h

“PROCESS” P R O C E S S Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 00:13:30 To: DH I've been feeling like a creative failure lately. There's an essay in my head, it seems like an important one, and I've been trying to push it out of my head and onto a computer screen, and it's clawing at the walls and biting my hands when I come near. Blegh blegh blegh. I can't work. I can sort of force myself to work, but it's not flowing the way it flows when it's actually flowing. (And then the little demons crawl in and ask whether the final product will even be worth all of the effort, or

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