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After Sleater-kinney Broke Up In 2006 I Had Very Little Desire To Play Music. It Took Well Over Three Years Before Picking Up A Guitar Meant Anything To Me Other Than An Exercise.

I Wrote So Much About Fandom And Participation For Npr That I Eventually Realized My Most Fertile Way Of Participating In Music Is To Actually Play It, At Least In A Way That Made The Most Sense To Me.

I've Never Understood People Who Play Up The Artifice Of Music.

I've Realized That I Have A Lot Of Different Loves, And I Want To Pursue Writing, But I Can Never Divorce Myself From Music.

Practice. Learn And Then Unlearn - That's The Trick In Finding Your Own Style Of Playing. You Can't Merely Emulate, You Have To Innovate, Or At The Very Least Create Your Own Path Into The Process.