ian ross
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Tiny Books. Big ideas.
ian ross
mindfulness.substack.com
Someone deserves a raise :). (image via Ros Barber/Substack)
rules for writing
Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination
youtube.comThe best anti Anthony Robbins inspirational advice for authors, creators and perpetual procrastinators like me. (and probably you, too)
START, EVERY TIME, WITH THIS INVIOLABLE RULE: THE SCENE MUST BE DRAMATIC. it must start because the hero HAS A PROBLEM, AND IT MUST CULMINATE WITH THE HERO FINDING HIM OR HERSELF EITHER THWARTED OR EDUCATED THAT ANOTHER WAY EXISTS
David Mamet • David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
What if you could have a panic attack, but for joy?
vox.com
"I remember seeing the great Christopher Hitchens debate
He was already sick.
And it was clear by his appearance, as he said so well “more & more was being taken from less and less”
“How are you feeling?” - the host asked.
“well, I’m dying.” - He said - "But so too, are you"
He was already sick.
And it was clear by his appearance, as he said so well “more & more was being taken from less and less”
“How are you feeling?” - the host asked.
“well, I’m dying.” - He said - "But so too, are you"
ian hollander @ianhollander
A beautiful dance on broken glass.
The Six Steps to Cosmic Consciousness: A Pioneering Theory of Transcendence by the 19th-Century Psychiatrist and Adventurer Maurice Bucke
themarginalian.org
The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study ever taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of THE WHOLE, or at least of an immense WHOLE, as dwarfs all conception, imagination or speculation, springing from and belonging to ordinary self consciousness, such a conception as makes the old attempts to mentally grasp the universe and its meaning petty and even ridiculous
Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.