“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory-what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a... See more
When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams.
It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method.
Here's exactly what Shohei did... See more
Yet I take some comfort that writing is kind of like a marriage, or any love relationship (because I don’t really know what it’s like to be married), in that there are seasons of feeling very intimate and close, where everything is easy and exciting, and other seasons of feeling frustrated and impossibly distant. But the key is to keep showing up,... See more