An Alien on the Hunt for the Ineffable Sauce of Good Writing

In Bird by Bird, the novelist Anne Lamott elegantly captures this rhythm of creation. “You find yourself back at the desk, staring blankly at the pages you filled yesterday. And there on page four is a paragraph with all sorts of life in it, smells and sounds and voices and colors,” she writes. “You don’t care about those first three pages; those y

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the primary concern of the writer should revolve around the aesthetic elements of the work which are ultimately a way of containing / directing what emerges from the darkness of the writers interior.

lately I’ve been thinking of great writing as work that emerges from a very distinctive, very deep subjectivity; and “craft” is about finding the ideal... See more

Realising my way of writing is akin to Penn and Teller's approach to magic; "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

My unique advantage / fatal flaw is sinking absurd hours into researching & writing things no one else would ever write about