Creative

There's a guy on Youtube who makes ambient music paired with a historic landscape painting. It's just a few notes + white noise (campfire, birdsong, etc). Good for reading. I'm into it; a few of my favorites linked 🔽. https://t.co/5HaNyGjfLE

I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?

My high-level advice—which supersedes everything below—is that you should decide what you want from your writing, and then completely ignore any advice which detracts from this goal. This includes advice which is practically sound but psychologically destructive when it comes to sustaining motivation.