Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
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Craft, stated vs. revealed preferences, and Octavia Butler's notes
What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced. It’s a way to access self-knowledge and self-respect.
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly com pulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only acciden tally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
writing is a way of connecting with yourself, your deepest thoughts and feelings, particularly when the first seem mysterious and the second hard to fathom.