Benedict Cumberbatch reads Sol LeWitt's letter to Eva Hesse

> you have to create things worth writing about Really? Why make writing conditional? And what do you mean by 'worth'? Worth to whom? I fell into the same bear trap and I ended up blocking myself. The challenge is to step away from attributing self-importance to what you write and make your writing superfluous. There are no rules except for those you encumber yourself with. For sure, it's perfectly valid to set goals for yourself. Like attaining wide readership, connecting with others, sharing what you know and what you've experienced, establishing an identity for yourself as a writer, contributing to a field of knowledge,... Even so, those are choices you make for yourself, not obligations. You don't owe your readers your writing. Sol LeWitt wrote a response to Eva Hesse who made the same complaint about the hardships of creation. Here's Benedict Cumberbatch reading that letter: ▶ this video Both artists became front-runners of post-modernism and post-minimalism. Now, none of the above implies that selecting, curating, editing, reviewing, reflecting,... should go out of the window. It means that when you sit at your desk - feet in the air, shooting pencils at your ceiling, thinking about what you're going to write - becoming acutely aware of how you judge yourself in the back of your head and being able to step back from that becomes a valuable skill. Per Neil Gaiman, your Inner Inquisition won't even remember the finer details of the hour long questioning sessions it submitted your thought process to in 5 months time.