Writers and artists who fall in love with the "grey" potential of an idea (the perfect novel unwritten) often fail to endure the "birth"—the messy, bloody, specific reality of editing and publishing.
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So, feel the weight. Let the fog settle around your shoulders. Listen to the silence hum. Your desire is growing in there, in the shadows of the color wheel. It is not lost. It is just not born yet. pregnant grey desire
Dr. Adam Phillips, the psychoanalyst, famously discussed the concept of the "unlived life" being more seductive than the lived one. Once a desire is consummated, it dies. It becomes a memory. It loses its potential. Writers and artists who fall in love with