Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
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Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
writing is a way of connecting with yourself, your deepest thoughts and feelings, particularly when the first seem mysterious and the second hard to fathom.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Writing is communication, self-discovery, creativity, spirituality, and self-expression.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
@phokarlsson I'm far from a luddite but I think part of the value of an artifact such as an essay is that a human wrote it and felt it -- like the essay is coming out of a deep and meaningful part of their life.
My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.