This is good advice for any artist or writer — like “kill all your darlings.” From Jim Eno of Spoon (in The New York Times Magazine):
“A lot of times, an interesting thing to do is to take out the first thing you recorded and see where it goes from there.”
Basically, the artist needs to be ready to free himself from his own biases and only keep what works. Sometimes it means realizing that what triggered a project no longer has a place, which is difficult.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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