“Art Isn’t Easy — Any Way You Look at It”

On embracing the other arts for writing.

In Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim explores the difficulties of being an artist, a maker, of any sort. I started listening to the musical (obsessively, compulsively) when I was a student at a fine arts high school. One year, our yearbook theme came from a song (“Putting It Together”—the title of this post comes from that song, too) in S…