Writing
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from which they will write the stories only they could write, using what m... See more
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
The form of jottings, rather than an essay (with its claim to a linear, consecutive argument), seemed more appropriate for getting down something of this particular fugitive sensibility.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
constructed by those who find an intersection of their interests, passions, skills, and a market gap. Sprinkle on a little bit of persistence, and the only way to fail is to give up.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head clean
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • How MrBeast Learns
Sometimes I think all the background work of annotating, journaling, etc is a waste of time. I’m reminded that it is not. It feels like a waste of time only because I am not doing anything worthy with it - revisiting, wrestling, writing.