writing

For me, the speaking part was easy, something like the experience of particularly quick and effortless typing: you think the words, and then the words appear on the screen, without any real awareness of the intermediary process. You think the concepts, and then the concepts express themselves. You hear yourself constructing syntactically elaborate... See more

The reality is that most ideas have already been written about in some form. So it’s not a good enough reason to abandon those ideas. What matters more is how you are looking at it and why it sparked your attention right now. The timing and context of your ideas are more important than how “basic” the general topic is. If your angle is grounded in... See more

☐ Is this part of a bigger trend or shift?

☐ Have versions of this conversation been had before in a different time or context? And can I use those other versions as reference for my own angle?

☐ Does this contradict something else we believe or support currently?

☐ What does this reveal about power, desire, performance, gender, status, systems,... See more

Uma das coisas que sempre amei sobre escrever é como o que aparece no papel é sempre uma surpresa, mostra que não tenho ideia de quem eu sou. Mostra que eu nem sou nada, só estou aqui pra deixar umas coisas entrarem pelos meus olhos e ouvidos e terminações nervosas e saírem pela ponta dos dedos — não tão diferente de uma árvore.

My heart is full and my pages are full but do they make sense to anyone but me? I cannot communicate it, I cannot write it, because I feel like I am not living.

Confidence grows with experience, yet we're expected to have our creative practice fully refined before we’ve had a decent amount of time to live into it.

“In the age of likes and follows, we have confused the reward of creating with the reward of being praised for creating.”

Leigh Bardugo (2025), TEDxUCDavis

Six of Crows duology are some of the best books I’ve ever read. To hear her say that it was made out of pure fear and self-doubt and to know how incredible it is makes me feel better about my own art.

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