Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
One-thousand or two-thousand words every day for the next twenty years. At the start, you might shoot for one short story a week, fifty-two stories a year, for five years. You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the necessary work done.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing
The ongoing collapse of advertising revenue within the creative media landscape certainly exacerbates the issue, with publications forced to rely on reader subscriptions, sponsored content, or pay-for-play coverage to fund their platforms – two out of three of which limit any negative feedback almost entirely.
“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
“If you’re having trouble sticking to a new habit, try a smaller version until it becomes automatic. Do less than you’re capable of, but do it more consistently than you have before.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth
The writer is not, then, an all-powerful architect of our reading experience. The writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it. A film begins with a writer producing a screenplay. But it is the director who brings the screenplay to life, filling in most of the details. So it is with any story. A writer lays down words, but they are in
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
To define intelligence simply as what humans do is the narrowest way we could possibly think about it – and it is ultimately to narrow ourselves, and lessen its possible meaning. Rather, by expanding our definition of intelligence, and the chorus of minds which manifest it, we might allow our own intelligence to flower into new forms and new emerge
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We rarely set out to dominate other animals for the sake of domination itself. Instead, our all-consuming concern is to improve human life: to treat diseases, fight poverty, raise our children as best we can, help our neighbours, and seek economic prosperity. Animal suffering is, unfortunately, a byproduct of our struggle to better our lives. Our f... See more