Austin Kleon
American writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! and Keep Going, and maker of blackout poems. He has blogged at austinkleon.com since 2005.
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Their wordsThe notebook is the place where you figure out what’s going on inside you or what’s rattling around. And then, the keyboard is the place that you go to tell people about it.
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- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsYes! Reading bad writing not only boosts one’s confidence, it can be very instructive.
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Their wordsWhat you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.
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- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsHence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
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Their wordsI’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.