Grit with Direction

Choose the next useful effort in a creative project

A project can need another attempt, a different method, a smaller scope or a clear ending. Grit with Direction follows original invented makers through those choices, keeping their actual work in view.

Fenna Briarlowe compares a changing paper-art series, two complete versions of an original short story and two written audio scores. The examples show what changes, what improves and what a revision can lose.

• Distinguish practice from work on the piece itself.
• Return to an interrupted project with a useful next step.
• Consider specific feedback without handing over every creative choice.
• Reduce scope while preserving the difficult question inside the work.
• Recognise a complete piece, a credible pause or an honest ending.

For adults pursuing voluntary personal creative projects. The people, conversations and work samples are invented teaching material. The audio examples are written scores; no recording is included.

By Fenna Briarlowe. 63 pages across 12 chapters. English. Digital PDF edition from eBookBasket.com.