what i learned on a creative sabbatical - by maja

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on creative life, work and why friction matters

by Seoul the Soloist A few months ago, I started a sabbatical with the earnest and deliberately experimental intention of writing more and exploring what a fully self-directed creative life might look like. Leading up to it, my Substack had been gathering momentum in a way that felt both accidental and electric. Ideas were arriving faster than I could metabolise them, essays emerging in the margins of workdays or late at night, and I began to feel an impatient curiosity about what might happen if I removed those constraints entirely. If time was the bottleneck, then surely clearing my…

what i learned on a creative sabbatical - by maja

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