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I interviewed Ian McNabb from the Icicle Works way back when I had journalistic ambitions - he said something to me that I still think is interesting, and is similar to your thoughts; essentially once he'd finished something he moved on immediately to the next idea and ignored reviews completely, because that work was done, there was nothing he could do to change it, and the creative process is what drives him, not the critical reception of his work.
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It’s the approach I take with everything. I believe in the concept of ‘flow’ where you enter a different state to create. There’s many of the stories i’ve written where I have little memory of the content aside from the base true story as the weaving of the fabric of the story is done so quickly and in an altered state of mind. After it’s done I have to move on. Looking back means you can’t look forward. I approach my art the same way, tapping into ‘something else’ to hopefully achieve something more than just plain graft can accomplish. Each new project is a learning exercise for the next new project.
General_Lucifer
It’s Pantone Blues on Amazon.
It’s weird, but I’m a bit ashamed of it now. I shouldn’t be, but I am.
I spunked out some stories that should have been crafted and it happened at an unbelievably dark time in my life.
Don’t get me wrong - the book served it’s purpose. It collated the stories roughly from 1-100 and locked them in paper, but when it comes to reading them out loud they need a total re-write, a Director’s Cut.
I want the next one to be different, not a lump of stories but a compilation that meshes a bit more.
After THAT...
Well, we’ll see.