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☐ 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

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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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

“As long as I’m passionately curious about a topic, at least one other person is going to follow me down that rabbit hole,” she rationalises. If it is difficult to tell what she’s going to do next, then that is the point, she says. “It’s only going to get weirder from here.”

First, some bad news: You will (likely) never be able to build a sustainable writing habit by motivating yourself — using fear, or excitement, or discipline — to handle high-friction writing. Motivation fades, and once it fades the friction will take over again and you will stop.

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.

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

She considered exploring her family history through biography but realised that would have involved making people relive their pain. Fantasy, however, gives the mind more space to roam, creating a familiar yet distant universe with its own logic, hierarchies and possibilities. “I’ve met a lot of readers who thought reading the trilogy was kind of a... See more