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Because the more I practice, the more I realize that I don’t even have a glimpse of my potential because of all of the ways I am inevitably complacent and blocked that I can’t even see yet. I am encouraged by the idea that the harder I work, the more glitches I will find in my system that are keeping me from noticing and expressing insight more... See more

So much of my writing practice is simply about writing when the urge to write strikes. If I miss that window or assume it will stick around and wait for me to be ‘ready’ (always a poor assumption), I lose the potential energy of that idea forever. It’s not that I’ll never be able to write again, or perhaps even never write an idea *like that* again... See more

The way to get novelty is to write about topics you've thought about a lot. Then you can use yourself as a proxy for the reader in this department too. Anything you notice that surprises you, who've thought about the topic a lot, will probably also surprise a significant number of readers. And here, as with correctness and importance, you can use... See more

Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol

Today, novelty is overrated.

My strategy is loose, then tight. I write the first draft of an essay fast, trying out all kinds of ideas. Then I spend days rewriting it very carefully.

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