Sophie Noel
@srophie
Sophie Noel
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
My high-level advice—which supersedes everything below—is that you should decide what you want from your writing, and then completely ignore any advice which detracts from this goal. This includes advice which is practically sound but psychologically destructive when it comes to sustaining motivation.
Celine Nguyen • In Praise of Writing on the Internet
The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to let our private language slowly meet the world. What it means to shape something loosely, gently, and with care—so that someone else might pick it up and feel less alone. I don’t think we need to rush that process. But I do believe in creating containers that help us tend to it with intention.
Self Publishing as Documentation Practice
Cody Cook-Parrott’s newsletter
“The greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded”
-Charles Lyell
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited… Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to
... See moreThe more I’m nourished by my work, the more that others have the possibility of being nourished by it too,” says Kening Zhu in “the joy of missing out on platforms.” Using comfortable tools is important if we want to make the work we’re destined to make.