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I want to write again.
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When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it tap
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Would this craft help me be more mindful and worry about the concept of time less?
I started writing at seven years old, after my step-dad showed me one of his stories for the first time. I don’t know if the intimacy of the act struck me as something special, or if it just introduced me to the idea that I can make my own books—like the ones I read all the time. After that, ideas would strike my mind and awaken something in my sou
... See moreOne of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.
Gracie Vansubstack.comThis is how it works: You’ve always wanted to be a writer, but instead you decide you should become a health care worker. You go to school for four years. You get a degree in social work. You are at your first day of your new job, listening to an orientation, and you realize you really did want to be a writer. You quit your job, go to the library w
... See moreNatalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
This feels similar to the path I’m taking as a writer, and that’s why I want to change. I want to stick with writing now, even when it gets hard, while I’m still young.
My beginnings are not beginnings; I just start. Sometimes I have to write the beginning after the book is done. Well, that seems like a natural thing, but many people don't go forward because the beginning isn't right; they just leave it until they get it right. I write what's there, what I know is there. If I have to rewrite it or change it, I'm n... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
