Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

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friction doesn't just make art great, it makes art period. and there are always, always trade-offs for reducing friction.

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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one of the beautiful things about this game is how many people can say this. dragon age inquisition was there for me when i really needed it.

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me, writing: oh my god writing sucks so bad it's so hard i feel like a fucking idiot i'm going to die me, also writing: oh my god i love writing i never want to do anything else, if i never wrote again i would die

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