writer's (un)block
Toni Morrison on Why She Kept Writing: “It’s pure knowledge.”
youtube.comwrite with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
There's something strangely difficult in writing just for oneself. As far as I can tell, almost no-one can do it productively9:10. We think better when the stakes are higher, and one of the best ways of raising the stakes is to make a document into something you're sharing with people whose good opinion you desire. Even just sharing with one such... See more
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
to write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
We, as cultural workers, people who labor in paintbrushes, camera lenses, Photoshop, song, pen and paper, and other forms of artistic labor, have to see ourselves and our work as weapons in a war for liberation. Our task is heavy: to create a culture of revolution.
Musa • Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile.
To imitate or not to imitate — the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.
Always remember — the speaker doesn’t do it. The words do it.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the... See more
To imitate or not to imitate — the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.
Always remember — the speaker doesn’t do it. The words do it.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the... See more
Sitting down to write in 2025 is its own kind of war with forces of distraction and click-to-buy shit at every turn.
Shakespeare and Jane Austen didn’t have to fight the itch to check Instagram every ten minutes while making their work.
They had oil lamps and real problems like measles or... See more
Allegra Preusssubstack.comThe allure of a good book: how is it possible that you came up with that sentence in your mind.
How to Master Writing - David Perell interview with Morgan Housel