Nyx Fairwyn’s Reviews > On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft > Status Update

Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of of our time.

Sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do it shovel shit from a sitting position.

Stopping a piece of work just bc it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea

If you write (or do anything in the arts in other words), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it.