Daily Archives: February 18, 09

Artists Stand Naked

All these writing exercises, many under time constraints - “Please do a character development using dialogue and no description for the next 12 minutes” - become like unconstrained mini-therapy, without the benefit of professional interpretation.

“You are not the narrator...” Sure I’m not. I’m supposed to connect with my “conscious, make friends with it” and “take a stand in your work”. If I really took a stand everyone in the room would fall down.

I’m learning that artists stand naked. Perhaps that’s why they are hunched over all the time.

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