🚀 Do you want help finishing Infinite Jest? Or want a complete guide to follow while reading? Join my Infinite Jest Course and Book Club here: writeconscious.substack.com 📚 Explore over 400 of Wallace’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/8956ce90fc 📖 Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious 📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e 🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com 🤔David Foster Wallace’s Favorite Book on Writing amzn.to/4eVmjAI
I work a mind-numbingly boring day job; gallery attendant at an art museum. Countless hours spent every day standing up and not doing much of anything. It’s so boring that new hires often quit after a few weeks because it’s too still and unstimulating, but I love it. I love having a place that forces me to sit and be. Boredom can be amazing if you can learn to work with it. It’s like a skill, I rarely ever get bored anymore, it’s always fuel for future creative projects.
I don't buy this as a universal trend. For example, in the professional classical music world, performance abilities and standards have gone up tremendously and regularly in the past few decades; this would not be possible without young practitioners being willing to sit alone and be intensely involved with a process which appears boring to outside observers.
I read Girl with curious hair and oblivion and I've watched his interviews. He's a hack, IJ is not worth the time of a 3 year old. Pale King should be burned in a flaming pile of pornography. Not bitter just annoyed how many better writers are out there that don't get the same attention.@@WriteConscious
🚀 Do you want help finishing Infinite Jest? Or want a complete guide to follow while reading?
Join my Infinite Jest Course and Book Club here: writeconscious.substack.com
📚 Explore over 400 of Wallace’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books
Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/8956ce90fc
📖 Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious
Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e
🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com
🤔David Foster Wallace’s Favorite Book on Writing amzn.to/4eVmjAI
I work a mind-numbingly boring day job; gallery attendant at an art museum. Countless hours spent every day standing up and not doing much of anything. It’s so boring that new hires often quit after a few weeks because it’s too still and unstimulating, but I love it. I love having a place that forces me to sit and be. Boredom can be amazing if you can learn to work with it. It’s like a skill, I rarely ever get bored anymore, it’s always fuel for future creative projects.
That's really interesting. How do you work with it, exactly?
Great insight Shane!
I love your channel its an amazing gateway to all these great works of fiction and you sell books kid, I bought like five books today bc of you
Thanks brotha! Trying to change the book industry all on my own! LETS GO!
Always happy to see ur name pop up at the top of my feed and bonus points for this interview
Thanks Sam!
Comment for the algo..... I'd love more on the pale king
Thanks brotha!
I don't buy this as a universal trend. For example, in the professional classical music world, performance abilities and standards have gone up tremendously and regularly in the past few decades; this would not be possible without young practitioners being willing to sit alone and be intensely involved with a process which appears boring to outside observers.
Both of you are speaking anecdotally
Wallace is great because he gave the world a true example of someone with nothing to say
Lol. You've obviously not read him very much and are bitter because people love him!
I read Girl with curious hair and oblivion and I've watched his interviews. He's a hack, IJ is not worth the time of a 3 year old. Pale King should be burned in a flaming pile of pornography. Not bitter just annoyed how many better writers are out there that don't get the same attention.@@WriteConscious