the art of the start

listening to: David Bowie


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I've been working on my novel THE DECADENTS and I keep thinking about a phrase I think Eric Maisel used, in one of his excellent books on the emotional life of the creative process: encountering the work. To me, that is another way of saying writing deep, and I find that, with this book, and at this point in my life, I'm interested in maybe a different definition of success: I want to write deep and encounter the work and do that day after day after day. For once,