On writing
I often see memes about how "everybody has a podcast now." The underlying message seems to be that having a podcast is overdone, or perhaps something only people with big egos pursue. But I believe in small p podcasting.1
I think podcasting, like blogging, will become increasingly mainstream. It will be completely normal to have a podcast intended... See more
I think podcasting, like blogging, will become increasingly mainstream. It will be completely normal to have a podcast intended... See more
Small P Podcasting
Very valid point
A Working Library
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I like this set up a lot. I think it’ll probably work for the Garden?
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.
Dillard, Annie • The Writing Life
It makes me think of the quote by Vladimir Horowitz: "If I skip practice for one day, I notice. If I skip practice for two days, my wife notices. If I skip practice for three days, the world notices."
Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.
The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you
... See moreDillard, Annie • The Writing Life
But when Gertrude Stein declined to label her desire as lesbian, she was, as I understand it, saying something like this: thinking in categories would interfere with my ability to freely pattern-match for the particular type of individual I resonate with.
Some people think Stein was lying when she said she wasn’t lesbian. And they are disappointed... See more
Some people think Stein was lying when she said she wasn’t lesbian. And they are disappointed... See more
Looking for Alice
Metalabel Guide - How It Works
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How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.