The app for independent voices
From my recent interview on The Creative Penn podcast, talking about the place of silence in the writer’s life—both wanted and unwanted:
It's not just that we can't find the silence and the space that we feel like we need for not drowning out our creativity. It's that we have unwanted silences come in, like writer's block. Or even if it doesn't feel like a block, just inertia. Just stasis.
I don't know about you, but I have many, many times found myself grappling with what, for all the world, feels like a totally natural, organic sense of wanting to slip into complete inertia, just total stillness. And that feels like it has been in conflict with my creative drive…
I really think there's a vein of gold to be tapped in the silences that come to all of us…If things go quiet and you think, “Oh no, I should be doing something”—why not let that be a place where things can germinate? Why not let that be the silence that you might not be able to find on the outside?
