I think knowing when something *doesn’t* work is maybe a more valuable skill than knowing when it does. My dad was a novelist and we were chatting one day about his work, when he told me that he was stopping a book he’d been writing for the last 4 months because it wasn’t working. I was stunned but also impressed at the discipline required to walk away from that much effort.
I think knowing when something *doesn’t* work is maybe a more valuable skill than knowing when it does. My dad was a novelist and we were chatting one day about his work, when he told me that he was stopping a book he’d been writing for the last 4 months because it wasn’t working. I was stunned but also impressed at the discipline required to walk away from that much effort.
quite insanely beautiful.