on writing
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.
Matter
honestly? writing is cardio.
> Comfort is comfortable, writing is uncomfortable (mentally and physically) and to write a lot for a long stretch of time is like being the world’s least coordinated endurance athlete.
i-Dsubstack.comTakeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last
Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments
writing.upenn.edu
If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between... See more
But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Writing as Communion
