How to get rid of old ideas
Oh, hi friends!
“Out with the old, in with the new.”
Cliche, right?
But it does feel good to clear some space in your closet. Or tick through emails and have a clean inbox. Or tell yourself, ‘This project isn’t a priority right now, and that’s OK.’
The trick is that to accept the new, you must definitively push the old out.
Pushing out the old looks like:
- Saying ‘thanks, but not for me right now’
- Taking the very last step you’ve been putting off
- Committing to a ‘heck yes’ or no
- Putting the unread books back on the shelf
- Turning down one too many commitments
There’s never been a better time to make space for the new.
"Be a much more ruthless editor, and be a much more careless artist."
This is from artist Christoph Niemann from the series Abstract on Netflix (Season One, Episode One). (Thanks to Brass Ring reader Brandi Stanley for sending this along.)
What a wonderful idea. Create with fewer cares, yet self-edit like a surgeon.
If you want to write something but are having trouble with ideas right now...
My friend Alison J. Stein has a new Skillshare class called five techniques to generate creative writing ideas. (By the end you come up with 50 new ideas!)
There are 10 lessons that take an hour total to complete. The class is for writers of all experience levels.
You can take the class by signing up for a Skillshare Premium account — it's free for two months (you can quit before that's over) and then it's $99 a year — and that also gives you access to Skillshare’s entire library of classes, including ones by Roxane Gay, Mary Karr, and more! It’s like Netflix for learning.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara