What should you do when you're madly in love?

It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it tap

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When that zesty feeling starts to wane, I hope a little bell rings in your mind to signal your next-level inspiration: Here is where your story gets interesting. Here is where your writing is asking you to be even more curious. Let your writing lead you. Be willing to let go of control and walk backwards. You may feel a little sick to your stomach.

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I think that people come alive when they’re serious about what they love—when they choose to pay careful attention to what feeds and sustains them. I love this one Heather Havrilesky line about how crushes are often just misplaced ambition. Of course crushes are more than that—they’re about nostalgia and magic and futures we’ll never access—but I t... See more

Doing projects, the world’s got to fall away. It’s like falling in love.