You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it?

For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no . We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on our phone at the bus stop. We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new ... See more

"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence" - George Saunders (good advice in general)

‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.

Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”

i didn't text you back because i was waiting to respond from a place of love and light

you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette (not a thread)