Getting lost is both the plight and the joy of the artist… This getting lost cannot be faked. We cannot pretend to be lost. We cannot be quasi-lost. In order to possibly find that way out – in order to discover that thing previously unknown to us – we walk through the pitch-black darkness. We feel our hands against cave walls. We slip and fall. We bruise ourselves, blind to our own path.
The always-brilliant Dani Shapiro on the creative urgency of getting lost. Also see Rebecca Solnit on how we find ourselves by getting lost.
Shapiro’s Still Writing is indispensable not only for writers, but for anyone in a creative field.
(via explore-blog)
