Your voice is the thing you can’t help doing. Stop sanding it off to fit in.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Your style is not something to invent, it is what remains when you stop correcting. The habits you keep apologising for, the subjects you return to, the rhythm that will not go away: those are the recognisable part, and they feel like flaws because they are automatic and so they do not impress you. Smoothing them out is how people make competent work nobody remembers.

Find the thing you keep trying to fix in your work and leave it in for one piece. Ask somebody what they would notice if you stopped doing it. Spend less effort sounding like the people you admire.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you keep doing naturally and then talk yourself out of?

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