Aphorism #68
When it gets easy, get busy.
Often I will praise a passage in a student work, only to hear, “But that was so easy. It only took me a few minutes!”
They assume that to be any good, art must be hard-won.
Yes, art is hard. But sometimes you get in a groove and things start humming. Trust it, grab it and run with it. It won’t last.
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