A Technique Championed by Russian Writers (And Fraggles) Can Give You a New Perspective | Meta Bulletin
Try This: Think of an opportunity you’d like to investigate (changing departments, creating a new product, writing a book in your chosen field), and hold a ten-minute freewriting conversation with a paper advisor. Now, pick out some interesting point from that conversation, and use it as a starting point for ten more minutes of writing with a diffe
... See moreMark Levy • Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
If you make an honest effort to alter your audience as an experiment, you can’t help writing yourself into some unexplored perspectives.
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
In either case, the big idea is not another small logical step on the journey. It’s a giant imaginative leap. The big idea transports you to somewhere else entirely. You know you’ve landed in a good place, but it’s not where you expected to end up when you set off. It’s exciting. It feels right. But you’re not entirely sure how you got here.
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