How To Be Creative
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How To Be Creative
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#2Wow. There is some great and striking stuff in there. Examples:
Your wee voice doesn't want you to sell something. Your wee voice wants you to make something.
If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
Frankly, I think youʼre better off doing something on the assumption that you will NOT be rewarded for it, that it will NOT receive the recognition it deserves, that it will NOT be worth the time and effort invested in it.
Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.
A very lively and, in places, shocking piece that I am going to have to reflect over.
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#3Since it's a PDF, here's a Scribd version:
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#4This seems pretty reasonable, but in general beware of "manifestos". See http://www.textism.com/maunifesto/
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#5This seems pretty reasonable, but in general beware of "manifestos". See http://www.textism.com/maunifesto/
Why? It's a genre like any other. It can be done well or poorly.
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto...
http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/...
(Actually, I wouldn't have said MacLeod's piece was a manifesto; it's more of a personal essay. Regardless of that, you said one thing I think is the kiss of death for this kind of writing: you called it reasonable!)
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#6Hugh (http://www.gapingvoid.com) keeps updating the list, here: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html
Tons of good stuff.
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#7Apropos of this being a dupe, I wonder if it would be reasonable to judge drift in the quality of a social news site readerbase via the response to the same content submitted at different time periods.
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#8Best thing I read in a while! (I'm not done yet but I'll read it all)
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#10Apropos of this being a dupe, I wonder if it would be reasonable to judge drift in the quality of a social news site readerbase via the response to the same content submitted at different time periods.
Didn't know it was a dupe.
I find response heavily dependent on the time and day of week of submission.