Sophie Choukah

• I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.


• I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive.


• Eventually, I looked up and noticed

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-Write in books that you own.

-Buy more books than you'll ever read.

-Read whatever books that interest you.

-Quit bad books to make room for brilliant ones.

-Read books in all formats (print, ebook, audiobook).

One reason I like this genre is that people censor themselves less when they are writing in private. I don’t mean that they are saying things that would get them ostracized in print (though that happens). I mean uncensored more generally: they allow their mind to be as it is on the page, however odd their thoughts are and however random the connect... See more