Rob Tourtelot
- Writing doesn’t just change the way we understand our lives or the world. It changes us. Sometimes, it saves us.
from Dear Scared to Feel Too Much: Sometimes, Writing Saves Us
- I want to invent new paths forward every day. And I want to make people feel their way to the truth. I want to rearrange their hearts using my words. I want to redesign their minds -- artfully and thoughtfully and inventively. When I give that gift to someone else, I receive it, too. It’s the absolute best. It’s not easy but it never gets old.
from Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
A story filled with heart and humor. A story that expressed authenticity, vulnerability, and truth. This should be our goal.
from Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
- START, EVERY TIME, WITH THIS INVIOLABLE RULE: THE SCENE MUST BE DRAMATIC. it must start because the hero HAS A PROBLEM, AND IT MUST CULMINATE WITH THE HERO FINDING HIM OR HERSELF EITHER THWARTED OR EDUCATED THAT ANOTHER WAY EXISTS
from David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff by David Mamet
🫁 Week 1 ~ Nervous System Fundamentals // Fri 29th March 2024
- I find great value in the spaces between us, when we enter those spaces with curiosity and respect and love.
from "The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untouchable—and knows no kindness with all...
We're telling ourselves a story about who we are and what life is, and we're confusing this story with reality.
from How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke
Practice is not about overcoming human problems. It’s not about becoming serene and transcendent. It’s about embracing our lives as they really are, and understanding at every point how deep and profound and gorgeous everything is—even the suffering, even the difficulty. So we forgive ourselves for our limitations, and we forgive this world for its
... See moreMorning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what's key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one's agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality
... See morefrom Three pages a day by Oliver Burkeman