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thenewgreen  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wilco AMA on reddit

As a songwriter myself that has recorded a few albums, I've found that I don't finish projects so much as I stop making them. How do you know when something is "done?"





ButterflyEffect  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would make a great #askhubski question.

user-inactivated  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's what you should ask Wilco, right there.

WanderingEng  ·  3374 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neil Gaiman once tweeted "Novels are never completed. Just abandoned & published."

someguyfromcanada  ·  3374 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On a whim several years ago I happened to walk into an art supply shop and pick up an easel, some canvases, brushes and paint. I had a dinner party the next night and everyone had to paint something before they left. Tons of fun. So I started painting abstract stuff and that was my big conundrum. I think I got to the point where I decided I was finished with one. All the others I just kept adding and adding to. Without a deadline I would be prone to just keep working on something, making it worse and then better ad infinitum.