Inneresting 91
issue 91
March 4th, 2021
Alone With The Work: Creativity and Solitude
Creation Needs Solitude - Stephen Batchelor makes the case that creativity requires getting comfortable being alone in excerpts from his book The Art of Solitude.
Why Go Out? - Sheila Heti offers a tongue-in-cheek lecture where she considers giving up socializing using the same tools she used to quit smoking.
Finding Your Own Trending Topics - Ivaylo Durmonski offers encouragement to use boredom to prompt action instead of a dip into social media. James Shelley argues that feeling compelled to speak instead of allowing yourself space to think about what you have to say is a form of repression.
Got it? Good, now get inside. - Joel Mayward looks at Bo Burnham’s Inside through the lens of André Bazin, describing how Burnham in isolation becomes the filmmaker, audience, and screen all at once.
#WriteSprint Together
Joining a Write Sprint can make the work less of a solitary act.
On social media, or in that group text you keep with your writing accountability buddies, announce you’re going to start a #WriteSprint and see who wants to join in! Pick how long you’re going to write, then shut everything else down and get typing.
Share successes, keep each other accountable, or cheer others on if you don’t have the time!
You can join in with a 60 minute #WriteSprint we hold every Saturday, announced on the @qapps Twitter account!
Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, in last issue’s most clicked link PJ Camillieri walks you through how Apple makes a presentation slide deck.
Other Inneresting Things
David Sims compiles a list of great films whose only Oscar nomination was for their screenplay.
Winchell Chung’s Atomic Rockets compares science fiction tropes about space to scientific observations.
Kyle Chayka can’t stop thinking about how comments on the internet frame any enthusiasm as obsession in order to get attention.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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