Writing

👉 WRITING RESOURCE ALERT👈 Back in episode 4 of the @turningtostory podcast, I shared my breakdown for writing character arcs act by act, and folks seemed to find it helpful. I know it took me years to find a process that gave me multi-dimensional characters that resembled real people and not the Little Caesars' pizza... See more

The first 24 quotes of the 100 quotes that helped me write last year. (More in today’s newsletter. Link in bio: @austinkleon)

what do you do when all the heartbreak and loss you used to write about in your 20s slowly, meticulously heals along the way. and here you are. on the edge of the next decade. unable to lift a pen, down to the ebbing joy you’ve carved out for yourself on the daily. unfortunate. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers... See more

Honorable mentions: “however comma, whole time”

> Just sitting here in the wee small hours of the morning, trying to find words for something true, believing that somewhere out there you're reading this and feeling something too.

> He correctly notes that we learn from others, but doesn't distinguish between thoughtful deference to expertise and mindless submission to authority. In his rush to deflate contrarian individualism, he ends up championing a conformism that's perhaps even more dangerous in its own way. The truth, as usual, lies... See more