never make it personal
My roommate and I have talked at length about how you can't make your art personal. "Personalize it," he'll always say. "But never make it personal."
He's 100% right, but as an artist, sometime it's difficult to be honest with yourself.
I recently scrapped an idea for a novel that was based on my experiences with a group of close friends. Then I picked up…
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