If you lose momentum or want to be prolific, go to the city. But if your thinking feels stale or you want to work on longer-form pieces, consider a retreat to the country.

David Perell 5.23.2022

his experimental mixing of Wordsworth's Tables Turned with Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is a joy to behold.

I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions. —Lucille Clifton

Reading Blackmore’s celebration of Gibbons’ carvings, you leave behind what you thought were the subtle distinctions between different things. You celebrate the dissolution of categories and the emergence of more hybrid kinds of creatures.

“Literary Invention in the Age of Disorder” Wolfram Schmidgen Spring,2022

a form I turn to from time to time: a loosely structured list of associated thoughts and reflections. I’m glad this approach has resonated in the past, and I hope it does so again. I’m drawn to it, I think, because it reflects the provisional and associative nature of thinking. It also reflects the way fragments of thought, often surfaced from... See more

My homework for life is a little blurb about the most story-worthy moment of my day.

We need to find the minimum viable scaffolding to get our work started and then focus on doing the work from there, making little adjustments as we go. ... Every minute we spend looking for The Right Tool is a minute we’re not using our perfectly good word processor to bang out the next great American novel.

Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft:... See more

Write a few words at a time. Write. One sentence. A few lines at a red light. For real. A page when the kids are at school. A page on lunch break. That's all it takes. Poetry happens in the seams of life.

@SeanLemonhead 11.19.2022

They focus less on consuming as much information as possible and more on cultivating the deepest possible understanding of the ideas that resonate with them most.

David Perell 5.2022