Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick
The way I see it, the “E.T. method” is their sole option. Their only recourse is to throw open their garage doors, drag out whatever they have stored away to that point—even if it looks like no more than a pile of useless junk—and slave away until the magic takes hold. No other approach can help us contact distant planets. We can only try our best
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From here, my recommendations go niche, and I want to make a case for why.
For any writer, but especially a writer of fiction, this is an arbitrage play. You don’t want to be reading the books that everybody else is reading. Possibly you don’t want to be reading the books that ANYbody else is reading. This is totally achievable; there are plenty... See more
For any writer, but especially a writer of fiction, this is an arbitrage play. You don’t want to be reading the books that everybody else is reading. Possibly you don’t want to be reading the books that ANYbody else is reading. This is totally achievable; there are plenty... See more
Having idiosyncratic interests that grow in complexity means that if you pursue them too far you will end up obsessed with things that no one else around you cares about .
A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
