Describing beauty as “who/what we’d see if we’re perfect” is a unique spin. I love it. I can see that idea extended to just from physical traits but to mental and work traits as well.
Whenever I find a new author/thinker I admire, I become *obsessed* with them. I read everything I can find, no matter how long ago it was published. But I don’t think I do it because I love to read (though I do), I do it because how they write is how I wish I write. I want to capture as many words as I can and feed them to my personal “Language Model” for that persona.
I think doing this with enough writers I find “beautiful,” I’ll be able to form my own voice—a unique combination of the 5-10 people I admire. Do I do this with everything else in my life? Probably. Is this a healthy way to develop a voice? Am I just using other influences to run away from my own because I’m scared of how awful my words will be on paper? Probably. But such is beauty.
Describing beauty as “who/what we’d see if we’re perfect” is a unique spin. I love it. I can see that idea extended to just from physical traits but to mental and work traits as well.
Whenever I find a new author/thinker I admire, I become *obsessed* with them. I read everything I can find, no matter how long ago it was published. But I don’t think I do it because I love to read (though I do), I do it because how they write is how I wish I write. I want to capture as many words as I can and feed them to my personal “Language Model” for that persona.
I think doing this with enough writers I find “beautiful,” I’ll be able to form my own voice—a unique combination of the 5-10 people I admire. Do I do this with everything else in my life? Probably. Is this a healthy way to develop a voice? Am I just using other influences to run away from my own because I’m scared of how awful my words will be on paper? Probably. But such is beauty.
Also this is a dope cover photo @Isabel. I’m saving this to my collection :-)