A Writer's Space
Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind—a scene, a locale, a character, whatever—and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind. The other voices are banshees and drunken monkeys. They are the voices of anxiety
... See moreAnne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
VOLUNTATE, STUDIO, DISCIPLINA–IT is through these things that we find and inhabit the third space, and more important, how we stay there. In a situation that would have us answer yes or no (on its terms), it takes work, and will, to keep answering something else.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Why not have a brainstorming session on paper to excavate your buried bliss? Write out a quick list of ten solitary pleasures. Don’t give this a lot of thought, but don’t be dismayed if it takes you a few minutes to come up with something.