November 2010
October 2010
“Success is like being pregnant. Everyone congratulates you, but nobody knows how many times you were fucked.”
— Unknown (via theessentialman)
“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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Ira Glass (via Rabbit Write’s interview on Gala Darling) (via healywu)
Ugh this is perfect. I turn in stories and my professor tells me they’re really good and the best in the class, but I’m still disappointed in them because I’m sitting here fuckin’ reading Updike all day and they don’t measure up.
(via mykicks)
Mike Birbiglia & the First Date Nightmare →
huffingtonpost.com
this man is my soulmate. who else except my soul twin could think up the concept of “pizza until you fall asleep”? also, he has sleeping habits that are far worse than mine. i snore, but homeboy has to wear mittens and zip himself up in a full-body sleeping bag. seriously. it’s love.
