Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan - Superorganizers
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Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan - Superorganizers
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started taking notes, I ended up taking more and more of them.
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
I feel like I say this to a lot of people, especially aspiring fiction writers. In my experience, it is really important to do two things.
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started... See more
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started... See more
Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
Being a first-class noticer, and cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, is crucial to any creative process.
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing (A Vintage Short)
The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing (A Vintage Short)
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Paying attention and listening. Looking for connections and relationships in the outside world. Searching for beauty. Seeking stories. Noticing what you find interesting, what makes you lean forward. And knowing all of this is available to use next time you sit down to work, where the raw data gets put into form.
There is no telling where that
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