alexi gunner

@idlegaze

cultural strategist

writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.

cultural futurist @ RADAR

Rebecca Solnit - “underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are meant to make.” https://t.co/hfVXl0yIp2
by Nix
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cafes really should have a ‘newsletter of the week’ noticeboard because half the people in them are probably writing substacks
from olivia rafferty on Substack
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
from Tweet by Chris Albon
from The monkey, the tiger beetle and the language of innovation by Courtney Hohne
Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:
To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the las
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from The alchemy of the rewrite by Michael Dean
from Instagram
One of the mirages that resides in many books today, of course, for him and for many of us, is the idea of its author being a “middle class writer.” That appellation seems somewhat fantastical, something borne of secret inheritances and side hustles. Becoming one has become the literary version of the illusory American Dream. It rhymes with the “do
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from Dirt: Cutting Class by Dirt

from olivia rafferty on Substack