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A little interview I did with Portable.tv.

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Notes William Gibson on his writing schedule

When I’m writing a book I get up at seven. I check my e-mail and do Internet ablutions, as we do these days. I have a cup of coffee. Three days a week, I go to Pilates and am back by ten or eleven. Then I sit down and try to write. If absolutely nothing is happening, I’ll give myself permission to mow the lawn. But, generally, just sitting down and really trying is enough to get it started. I break for lunch, come back, and do it some more. And then, usually, a nap. Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

— from an excellent interview with William Gibson by David Wallace-Wells, The Paris Review

#writers #schedule #routine #creativity #The Paris Review
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More & Co. is making beautiful things. They’re a creative studio based in Portland, Maine with an immense amount of heart in their work. I had a chance to work with them on a Starbucks shoot in Austin, TX earlier this year. I was a lucky soul cast to have fun with a talented team for four glorious days. Take a look at their wonderful work and gorgeous blog: I’m sure there’s lots more to come.

#More & Co. #Maine #creativity
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In April, I went to see the illustrator Christoph Niemann speak at Creative Mornings. It was an inspiring and humbling morning — one of the best live talks I’ve had the chance to attend. This one is worth a watch.

#creative mornings #cristoph niemann #creativity #process #events
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"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

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My friend Jocelyn interviews Maira Kalman about her creative process on the 99%.

“Storytelling seems to be central to all of your illustrations.
I think everything I do is narrative, but it’s not just a story, it’s a movie – a movie of my life. And usually I’m trying to put too much information in one image. But because I thought that I would be a writer, and that’s how I started out – as a writer and not as an artist – then when I decided to start drawing, it was going to be narrative. It’s things that are from my life, and things I’ve seen, and things I’ve seen in books. It’s always telling stories.”

#99% #Maira Kalman #interview #creativity #process