Creating is like having a piece of your heart live outside your body
And it can feel scary. A thread in four tweets...
Just thinking out loud... the goal of art isn’t perfection. It’s to make the viewer/reader/audience feel something and take a part of it into themselves and react to it, and make it mean something to them. And when you put your art into the world... (1/4)
your book, your poem, your art, it’s scary because you can’t control people’s reactions to it. But it is their reaction that makes it what it is. It becomes something that is now part of them, too. (2/4)