Self-editing lessons from Peter Jackson’s Get Back Beatles documentary

I’ve been watching Peter Jackson’s documentary about the Beatles album Get Back. It’s eight hours long, and quite repetitive, but I find it mesmerising and epic. It enshrines the miracle of creative work – start with nothing, mess about with it, seize on fragments and work them to smithereens, abandon them maybe, mess around a… Continue reading Self-editing lessons from Peter Jackson’s Get Back Beatles documentary