{"id":256,"date":"2023-12-01T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/?p=256"},"modified":"2023-12-01T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:49:27","slug":"notes-of-preferred-modes-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/2023\/12\/01\/notes-of-preferred-modes-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes of preferred modes of creativity."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I registered for a writing class today. It’ll start next month, but as I did it, I had to laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve spent the better part of the last few years trying to become a better writer and subjecting most of you to those trials through attempted longform here and in my newsletter. I had no compunction about putting my clumsy wordplay into your eyeballs. (If you’re actually reading, that is.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But <\/a>I look at my IG and I haven’t posted a single drawing-thing in months, because my identity (in my head) is SO tied into what I draw and a) I’ve been writing more and b) my drawings haven’t been worth posting, IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Kleon said that people care about the creative process, and want to see “the making of”, which makes sense, because in this AI world, there’s a vast gulf between what you can watch someone make versus what a computer can output with some keywords. The magic’s in the making!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while you watch me stumble through the construction of cogent thought, and I happily drop 300-400 word essays onto your TL, I can’t bear to let you see what I’m drawing. Just funny why that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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