Writing
by Lael Johnson · updated 8h ago
Writing
by Lael Johnson · updated 8h ago
Work at a different speed.
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
Different channels for your writing depending on idea maturity
the maturity of the idea (letting weeds grow so they can become flowers) you can have stuff exist (plant seeds) publicly that doesn't blast peoples emails / feeds)
Your confidence with that idea (in the sense of needing feedback gyms, cozy web / safe spaces to develop ideas, getting feedb
Lael Johnson added 10d ago
“Every morning, you MUST love your whims and trust your whims, as you write anything and everything you desire, without shame, without purpose. Let it suck and let it be brilliant, too. Write way too much and then write too little. Feel hopeful and feel ashamed and understand that this is how you will live forever. Your brain is melodramatic. It wa
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The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” - Steve Jobs
Lael Johnson added 24d ago
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
Lael Johnson added 10d ago
i can just write stuff here i guess
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
practice
repetition
maintenance
care
delayed gratification
unfolding
becoming
slow
soft
Lael Johnson added 9d ago
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
-Susan Sontag
Lael Johnson added 19d ago
Music done right captures a resonance between math and language.
Harmony/rhythm is basically a space/time language that is mathematical (an octave is a unit of space, a measure is a unit of time, and it’s all about how you carve and layer within those units). Lyrics are obviously the linguistic half of it. In the most basic songs, a nice poem is la
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