Neil Gaiman is wise.
These last few weeks, I’ve been working on a huge side project on top of my regular work, and though I’m in love with this side project, it’s possible this has been the toughest month of work I’ve ever had. Somehow, before now, I always managed to have my big creative projects be my main work. And though I’m hoping this side project will become my main work, for now I’m living in an almost constant state of exhausted overwhelm. And tomorrow’s a big deadline that I not only have to meet, but that I have to own. I must achieve all the metaphors. I must...
Read MoreLongshot Radio on Creativity and Failure (I’m on It!)
A couple years ago, I followed the inception of Longshot magazine (then called 48 Hours), which was a full print magazine issue some very smart magazine people put together from submissions to print-ready in just two days. I didn’t know that some very smart radio people had started occasionally doing the same thing in radio, too. Until last week, when I stumbled onto an announcement that Longshot Radio, in conjunction with Radiolab and the 99% Conference, were going to do their thing again, this time on the topic of creativity, revision and failure. As it happens, I’ve had the...
Read MoreEsperanza Spalding: “Failure is everything.”
I first heard Esperanza Spalding‘s music on Rdio a few weeks ago, and I listened to her newest album all day. But it was a work day and I had a dozen fires burning and I didn’t give her much thought after that. But then I read this brief piece in the Huffington Post about a Q & A she recently held. Now I want to listen to all of her music right now and I want to see her in concert and I hope she does do a TED talk sometime soon. Because in addition to saying some very grounded and awesome things about creativity and the creative process and hip hop, she said this about...
Read MoreRut Race, Day 1: Who’s With Me?
I’ve been in a rut since, oh, about January. Life’s been breathing hot and gross down my back, work’s been poking me in the side incessantly, and as a result I’m run down, burnt out and barely able to muster the energy to socialize, let alone be creative. My brain feels numb. My hands feel limp. And to be honest, I’m beginning to want to punch my own cranky self in the face. I’ve been here before. We’ve all been here before. But though I’ve spent the last few months feeling awful, and I’m well aware of many of the factors contributing to...
Read MoreCaine’s Arcade
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