On the Lone Genius Myth: What is a sustainable creative practice?

How we can promote joy and compassion through the work we love (and sometimes hate)

‘I’ve done it,’ my partner declared. ‘I’ve solved writing. No more writing.’

This is a joke between us. Facing down the struggle of a blank page day after day, we come to the end of our writing session and declare that we’ve cracked it. We wrote, and we’ve solved writing forever. It’s our kind of black humour: we know the work is never done. The writing…