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As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house _ once someone else gets to experience it _ everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That__ the alchemy of art.
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As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house _ once someone else gets to experience it _ everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That__ the alchemy of art.
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