A few ideas for this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMqkxLNHFdM]
Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.
It sounds so fun, so playful. Despite certain experiments being serious, vigorous and important, this rule makes me think of the open mind with which you attend an experiment. I either want to prove something or not. Regardless of what hypothesis an experiment provides, you gather data, which you can further use it.
- You’re always in the middle.
There is no beginning. Producing a poem starts before you put your pen down to write it. It includes your personal micro-culture:
We [are] shaped as writers, I believe, not much by who our favorite writers are as by our general experience of fiction. Learning to write fiction, we learn to listen for our own acquired sense of what feels right, based on the totality of the pleasure (or its lack) that fiction has provided us. Not direct emulation, but rather a matter of a personal micro-culture.
— William Gibson
The cultural reservoir formed by your experience reading, watching, by encountering anything, any art, defines your sources of inspiration, even if it’s a conscious or an unconscious act. It’s important to cultivate this kind of personal archive that you can draw on in your works.
A design is done in a second and every experience, and every movie, and every thing in my life that’s in my head.
— Paula Scher