Soren Dahl

Copenhagen

Soren Dahl

Walks long routes in bad weather and writes them down.

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On walking the same route every morning

I keep a running list of the small decisions a project asks for, because the list is the only honest record of where the time actually went. It is never the big architectural choic

On walking the same route every morning

Walks

Maps I keep but never use

There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up

Maps I keep but never use

Walks

Weather as a writing prompt

What finishes a piece of work is rarely inspiration. It is a deadline, a collaborator, or the specific embarrassment of having told someone it was nearly done.

Weather as a writing prompt

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