Writing
Love to write~
Writing
Love to write~
“I’m not sure what to write about”
1. Wins
2. Goals
3. Hacks
4. Books
5. Habits
6. Beliefs
7. Failures
8. Mistakes
9. Decisions
10. Predictions
11. Life lessons
12. Mental models
13. Famous people's ideas
14. What pisses you off
16. Personal rules
17. Blueprints
18. Systems
Critical theorist Walter Benjamin once distinguished between two types of storytellers: one is a keeper of the traditions; another is the one who has journeyed afar and tells stories of other places. But there is a third, and that is the exile. The exile, with a gaze that is obscured by distance and time, may not always be precise in terms of
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1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony
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Some points to defend the POV that “essay quality is objective.”
Specific scope: You have to set the scope small enough to “essays.” Books, memoirs, newsletter and other written mediums have their own criteria. Songs and films are even more different. I think it’s important not to get bogged down in genre, and instead to see genre as a culturally
Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression—to speak, to say who you are and how you care about light and rooms and lullabies.
practice
repetition
maintenance
care
delayed gratification
unfolding
becoming
slow
soft