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    Writing and Making
    Gillian Holding
    • Nov 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Writing and Making

    There's no substitute for making art. You can kid yourself that reading, writing and thinking are all a vital part of the process but that's just procrastinating self-delusion in play. Writing and thinking is a way of avoiding progress which is a way of avoiding failure. There is no progress in art-making without failure. I once did a series of blog posts on #dailyfail (see here for an example) and well meaning people rushed to console me and assure me I was not a failure. It
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