Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
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Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
“I have a practice of keeping online ‘notebooks.’ But before I arrived to this helpful metaphor, I felt this intense pressure to have a ‘single place online where all my writing exists.’ Once I decided this didn’t need to be true for me, and that my writing was actually better because it was formed in a particular and specific world, I was able to feel confident in creating separate, disparate worlds that would eventually symbiotically coexist to create a broader whole.” On Writing & Worlding — Part 1 of 2 Read: https://anotherdayinthedome.substack.com/p/on-writing-and-worlding-part-1-of Sources: https://www.are.na/laurel-schwulst/on-writing-and-worlding
instagram.comAt the top of every creative log are two prompts—“For others” and “For me”—where I articulate the purpose of the writing.138 Filling these in helps me determine the writing’s fate, so I try to be as honest as possible. No answer is off limits. No reason too egoic. “Wanting to better understand my thinking” and “Wanting to better position myself as
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