It's what we used to do before anyone had all the answers. When maps were at best a good start on a journey that was otherwise yours.
A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.
Sometimes what we tend to think of as linear processes may be better understood as non-linear, interconnected, and intricately responsive wholes (or gestalten).
Art is all about impressions. Just because you want something to feel a certain way doesn’t mean it has to be that way.
I think as a writer there is a lasting tension between the things you want to be on the record for as having said, and the things that might better reach your readers because they are said differently.
In regard to taking a chance on ourselves, most of our fears essentially boil down to being afraid of failing in public. And there is some validity here. I don't think we should do away with this fear entirely, pretending for even a moment that we could.
If my dream were a woman, would she be into me? Would she find me attractive? Or would I come off as some clingy, cloying loser, desperately trying to get her attention by any means possible?