How to be creative (book outline)
Not sure if I’d logged this before, but it’s worth a look.
(gapingvoid.com) [mature theme!]: My first year in New York was a transient time for me. Uncertainty about my career and other personal issues meant instead of settling down like a normal person, I was going out a lot. I was drinking way too much. About this time I started doodling on the back of business cards, just to give me something to do while sitting at the bar.
The whole book is online, too. Reading this, I’ve arrived at an epiphany about the differences between Big City life and us country mice: City dwellers always seemed perched on this fence (”tense duality”: see linked story) dividing what they are doing now in their lives and what they idealize themselves doing. So many waitress/actresses and bartender/writers, etc. Out here in the sticks, what we we do is pretty much who we are. The options just aren’t around to make us feel all inadequate or unfulfilled. I think that’s the biggest shock city folks get when they visit here: that they’re suddenly going to cornered and have to face up to what kind of person they really are, right now, right here. This is a recurring theme in fables and movies, where urbanites are transplanted into a rural setting and somehow “find themselves.”
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