#60 A Slow Sunday Scroll ☕️
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#60 A Slow Sunday Scroll ☕️
Authors should not write from their wounds, they should write from their scars” - Nadia Bolz-Webber
A Process for the Transfer of Energy and Feeling: George Saunders on the Key to Great Storytelling
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Remember: First identify a good story, and only then see what problems it might help solve.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
Make a story for the things you want to remember. Never make a story for the things you want to forget. Let those disappear with time. Your memories are a mix of fact and fiction. Your story about an experience overwrites your memory of the actual experience. So use this in your favor. Re-write your past. Embellish adventures. Disempower trauma. Re
... See moreDerek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”