réka
@reka
writer & recovering perfectionist
@reka
writer & recovering perfectionist
Current writing workflow ~easing into things~ :
acknowledge discomfort and fear (hello, fear)
start writing by hand, copy out last written sentence in project and continue on paper for a couple minutes
copy out what I just wrote into an Enso text doc on my laptop and keep writing until it stops being scary (however long that takes)
transfer Enso text
trying to ease discomofrt when starting to write, and finding ways to meet the call to write
Being embarrassed is a choice
“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”
—Jason Mraz
@ Carnegie Hall
November 23, 2011
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl
... See more“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
on your 20s and quotes