On writing
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“I want to do a different thing. I want to actually improve over time. I want to develop my own takes. I want to understand everything. And this is how the podcast improves over the long run too - by me becoming smarter and learning more shit. That is the underlying beta. Everything else is a temporary benefit at best (and more often, a total
... See more“I’ve never done morning pages, or speedily written a shitty first draft. I edit my sentences as I write them, like a coward!”
— Haley Nahman, Beyond routines
Annie
“Writing is a tool to reach beyond consensus. Write and write and write until you transcend the cliches and step into undiscovered territory”
— Ava via Sari
Every time I cut something, I'll never delete it. I just copy and paste it under a line at the bottom of the document. That's how I know I'm making progress – the graveyard gets larger and larger and the only things that are left alive are the things I didn't think I should kill.
“After writing and recording an album, I allow myself a large and ever-increasingly long exhale. But leading up to the process, I tend to get consumed by a theme that carries me through to the writing - I know when it’s happening now because it feels like picking up breadcrumbs; one book leads to another, or I feel called to travel or learn somethi
... See more“The editor is the professional in the poet.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
“I don’t know what I think until I write it down.” —Joan Didion