If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
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- Or, to put it another way, it should feel like work rather than labor. This criterion was proposed by art critic Dave Hickey, who, after writing about and working among many of the great visual artists of our time, said in an interview, of creative work, “I think that if you don’t like it and it’s not easy, you shouldn’t be doing it … I mean it’s work, but it’s not labor.”
title: “If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying”
author: “sashachapin.substack.com”
url: ”https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/if-you-have-writers-block-maybe-you”
date: 2023-12-19
source: hypothesis
tags: media/articles
If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
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- Or, to put it another way, it should feel like work rather than labor. This criterion was proposed by art critic Dave Hickey, who, after writing about and working among many of the great visual artists of our time, said in an interview, of creative work, “I think that if you don’t like it and it’s not easy, you shouldn’t be doing it … I mean it’s work, but it’s not labor.”