One of the things that's influenced me recently is Edward Said's "On Late Style" (which I didn't finish, but got the gist of). It's basically an analysis of the high-culture equivalent of jumping the shark.
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The tldr as I understood it, is an "aging" process for creative work
1. A style reaches a maturity plateau, where its paradoxes become clear
2. You recognize this and persist anyway, producing fatally flawed virtuoso baroque works
3. Your work looks like horcrux-making
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I have a nearly 70k words in my drafts folder accumulated in the last 2 years. It's all late style bs that I'm not happy with. I'm going through carefully and nuking most of it. I'm too young to be there already...as a book writer I would have taken another 10y to get there.
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This is why I agree with your instinct that you should get preachier and give direct advice now
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That was pure bluster. I have no preachy direct advice to give either.
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Lol maybe it wasn't "preachy" but I can't find the tweet 😆 actually I was also looking for the one where you asked people for things they are onto that aren't mainstream yet, do you have that anywhere ?
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I know the tweet you mean, and preachy is a fair way to put whatever I said
can't recall the other one. My tweeting isn't really very disciplined long-term-memory wise. I don't save shit

