The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before._ How is it we can bear to live with ourselves, as readers and storytellers, if we swallow those limitations without questioning them?
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I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before._ How is it we can bear to live with ourselves, as readers and storytellers, if we swallow those limitations without questioning them?
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