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Shrinking the gap between the idea and the realization of the idea

Agency is about our capacity to act, to desire something and move towards it, to experience our own power having tangible effect in the world. It is kind of just Free Will?

It feels like:

A very deep breath and the aliveness you feel after

Breakthrough

A warmth like pride in the chest

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How to write a story your readers can't put down: Use the ABDCE framework. It's in countless classics, from Romeo and Juliet to The Great Gatsby. Here's how it works (every writer should know this): https://t.co/5Epln3O2Qu

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is... See more

I think of art as a message in a bottle that I’m sending out there. These are all the things that make me feel vulnerable and human and this is a secret I’m going to whisper into it. And I’m going to send it out into the sea, and hopefully somebody’s going to come back and say, “Me too,” waving from another island.

In order for me to hopefully find... See more

All writing about despair is ultimately insincere. Putting fingers to keys or pen to paper is secretly an act of hope, however faint—hope that someone will read your words, hope that someone will understand. Someone who truly feelsdespair wouldn’t bother to tell anyone about it because they wouldn’t expect it to do anything. All text produced in... See more