writer's (un)block
write 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 are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own... See more
Hannah Close • Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
Toni Morrison on Why She Kept Writing: “It’s pure knowledge.”
youtube.comIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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”
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all… as long as you tell the truth.
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?
One trouble with blogging is that people subscribe to the blog , rather than each post finding its own audience. This encourages lowest common denominator writing. In particular it creates a context in which depth is penalized