The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.

It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.

Explore and experiment. Challenge yourself. Go down paths that could be dead ends. Take time for silence and day dreaming and let your unconscious mind work. Read widely. Dabble in other mediums and let the alternate form inspire your process.

anyway i really loved the movie i thought it was beautiful meditation on life as a creator and what happens to people who can only really express themselves through art. yes self indulgent but i say go for it. LOVE IT when creators self indulge to say 'this story is important and i am important too'

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Ah, which reminds me of the best tweet of all time.

there is a tendency among those invested in ‘higher’ forms of art to view art that aims to give its audience pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, as inherently suspicious, and this seems to me to be equally conservative impulse.