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Posts Tagged ‘David Bayles’

Why, in Writing, Process Trumps Product, And Why You Shouldn’t Worry About The Quality of Your Work

By Hillary | November 21, 2013 | 5

Everyone’s obsessed with quality, but the way to achieve it is not to focus on it. That’s because: 1) Quality is an Emergent Property An emergent property is one that’s intrinsic to a system, and that arises organically as that system operates. Think of relationships: if you try to force them, they wither and die.…

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Ira Glass on Developing Your Creative Skill: Go for Quantity, Not Quality

By Hillary | July 13, 2013 | 0

The below 2 minute video of Ira Glass explaining how the secret to artistic quality is to do a lot of art is well worth your time. Bayles and Orland make the same point in their terrific book Art & Fear. They tell a (true, I believe) story of two pottery classes: One class was…

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