Alix
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Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
Alix
peacelovedivine.substack.com
nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more
Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.
It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.
Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.
Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more
Nat Eliason • Tweet
AI prompts for writers
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
When you slow down and really break a topic down, you start to realize there isn't enough clarity in saying, "I want to write about X." And the reason so many writers sit down to write, only to give up 5 minutes later, is because this is the first BIG realization they have to confront. They thought they knew what they wanted to write about, only to... See more
ship30for30.com • How to Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate Guide
Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.