on writing
cafes really should have a ‘newsletter of the week’ noticeboard because half the people in them are probably writing substacks
olivia rafferty on Substack
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Good writing is meditative writing. It’s a polished and cohesive train of thought, devoid of superfluous babble. If intrusive thoughts make their way into your writing and you neglect to edit them out, your work will suffer. Quality writing does not arise from a stream of consciousness or absent-mindedness. It’s a practice of meditating on a specif... See more
Jen Hitze • Attention, Distraction, and Your Responsibility
We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.