Writing

Love to write~

Well, you need dirt to grow plants. A farmer I admire once wrote that 90% of his job was dirt management. Manage the dirt well and the plants grow themselves.

James Horton, PhD. • The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot

Writing is a generosity, even to yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

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“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

-Susan Sontag

i can just write stuff here i guess

Research begins with a desire to ask and answer questions, thereby contributing to the greater sum of human knowledge and culture .

Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity

The Cult of Done Manifesto

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.

Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

There is no editing stage.

Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.

Banish

Thomas Deneuville • The Cult of Done Manifesto

Why do I care about these topics ?

What is it about these topics that’s interesting to me ?

Whatever the answer is, that’s where your writing begins.

You’re just trying to find readers who have the same questions you do.

Which means that the act of writing for a reader is the act of trying to find those answers—those further questions beyond—together.

{D} 119: Yes but what's your question

Even as a kid, I always wanted the most words to rhyme. Say I saw a word like “transcendalistic tendencies.” I would write it out on a piece of paper— trans-cend-a-lis-tic ten-den-cies—and underneath I’d line a word up with each syllable: and bend all mystic sentence trees. Even if it didn’t make sense, that’s the kind of drill I would do to... See more