Got some brilliance to share?
An invitation to bother us with your brilliance
I’ve been delighted by the collaborative pieces I’ve been working on to share here! I’m writing this after loading the first to be sent to you (though you’ll be reading it weeks later), and I’m remembering hopping on Zoom across the country, from the three rivers of Pittsburgh all the way over to the Rockies, to conduct the interview, not knowing where it would go—only that there was something I wanted to follow.
Taking my favorite pieces from my stint in copywriting: asking someone about themselves, noticing where my curiosity sparks and leans in.
Leaving behind the need to wrangle it into a persuasive, tidy sales page. But still keeping you, the reader, in mind, wondering how to present our conversation so it kindles something in you.
I’m remembering now how the second interview was nearly an hour long, and I remarked to a friend that my only goal for the day was to go through the transcript to make notes for the newsletter I’d write, and she said I could use ChatGPT for that—and I pictured a tiny robot rummaging through the words for key ideas to present to me in a tidy bullet list—and I awkwardly changed the subject.
I’m sure the program designed to allow humans to mimic machine-like levels of output could gather some key points and make a fine outline…but the spark would be gone.
Which is my long-winded way of asking: Do you have some wisdom to add to this conversation?
Have you moved past an obstacle we’ve not yet talked about to make and share your creative status-quo-disrupting art and ideas more swiftly, steadily, and playfully? Or do you have new insight to add to something we’ve already talked about?
How are you making time to make your art, to incubate your ideas, or to develop your body of work even though other things seem more pressing?
How are you sharing your art, your weird, your “too out there” ideas even though someone will definitely think they’re too frivolous or annoying?
How are you navigating the tension between the play and spaciousness required to make something new and the pressure to always be palatable, productive, profitable?
When you feel tension around actually BEing your creative, courageous self, what’s the most common reason? And how do you navigate around or through that?
If you’ve got some brilliance you’d like to share, I’d love to connect.
If you’d like to be interviewed or have an idea to collaborate in another way, reply to this email and tell me a bit about yourself and what you’d like to share (it doesn’t have to be perfectly articulated). I won’t be able to accept all requests, but I will reply to you either way.
Next time, we’ll explore the worry of not being productive enough,
Until then,
Ryn