Writing ideas
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
When you’re used to following a script, it’s hard to learn to write one. When the script is finished, it can feel like the story is over. At least, the pleasant parts. This is disquieting at best, depressing at worst
Is it ever, to be given free creative control of your own script is an amazing opportunity but is it ever the the overly complicated and damaging task
You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Haven’t read the book but enjoyed the words
1. The aim of my writing is never to make money. If there are opportunities, I will pay attention, but it is never the direct aim. I obsessively focus on other funding mechanisms such that I don't have to worry much about how to monetize writing.
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down... See more
2. I write for readers like me. I dislike a lot of the current trends in books. I think they dumb down... See more
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Reading and watching
a philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles:
1. Do few things.
2. Work at a natural pace.
3. Obsess over quality.
Slow Productivity - Michael Karnjanaprakorn
Do parents/can they find a third plac