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How to Finish a Painting Without Losing Your Mind

Oops, you don’t have time for a crisis—the paints are drying as we speak.

Having trouble starting? In a rut? Create some arbitrary rules or themes and stick to them to paradoxically set your creative mind free.

I forgot what gremlins were called.

“I’ll make a cheese plate for every session!”

by Noah Keene | Mar 14, 2025 | 1 comment

The next books in the series were improvements, in the same way that breaking a finger is an improvement over breaking your spine.

You are living in a world where we are constantly connected and bombarded with news of terrible things happening globally at every second. No biggie!

Just because I have the power to create characters doesn’t mean I have the power to make them do whatever I want.

I should ask him his name, I thought. He somehow knows I don’t like coffee, and I don’t even know his name.

Of course, you also have to contend with the assigned theme sometimes.

We’ve tried ███████, ██████████, and ███████████. Where has that gotten us?