This Will Change How You Write About Your Life Forever
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
dance with this challenge. The puzzle is figuring out how to remain unselfconscious while writing and stay open to conscious thought at the same time.
Sarah Selecky • Story Is A State of Mind: Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity
ON WRITING INSPIRATION:
Anything is interesting if you’re honest enough. Anything. I cannot stress this enough. You could tell me how you decided what to eat for dinner last night, and if you did it with the right combination of lucidity and fearlessness—unpacking the little idiosyncrasies behind why you think the way you do and the backstories tha... See more
Anything is interesting if you’re honest enough. Anything. I cannot stress this enough. You could tell me how you decided what to eat for dinner last night, and if you did it with the right combination of lucidity and fearlessness—unpacking the little idiosyncrasies behind why you think the way you do and the backstories tha... See more
Haley Nahman • #104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live. I’m thinking about a book I read called Field Notes on Science & Nature , a collection of essays by scientists about their notes. It’s hard to imagine a more tedious concept — a book of essays about notes ? — but in execution it was wonderful. What i... See more