[arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Sept. 14: Perspiration or Inspiration?

[Andrea Phillips]

This is a question that came up on IRC a few weeks ago. There are a
few ways that creative work happens. On the one hand, there's the
Stevie Wonder model, perspiration: You work and work and work (writing
dozens of songs a fay, and then, by the numbers, some of the work will
be chart-toppers. Then there's the inspiration model, the apocryphal
Voltaire writing Candide in three days: You wait until an idea comes
to you, and then you execute it in one dizzying whirlwind until it's
done.

So you: Where do you fall? Skew hard one way or the other? Someplace
in the middle? On one end and wish you were on the other?

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Andrea Phillips
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