Cloning a Plant
If you’ve ever found yourself at an impasse, you have a few options. You can go through your archives and see what you can reuse, or you can copy other people’s work.
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith:
“My books are so boring that even the copy editors can’t read them.” He believes that the propositions his writing presents—uncreative writing’s permission to borrow entire texts, for example—are more interesting than the writing itself. “I don’t have a readership,” he said. “I have a thinkership.”1
You don’t have to publish the copied work, but just use it as a starting point.
Like cloning a plant.