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Feeding the Fire Through Hard Seasons
photo by Kezadri Abdelhak via Unsplash It feels like a hard season for making things right now. I know some great writers who have gone quiet recently. Or are starving. It’s easy to talk about productivity or discipline at times like this. But when we’re crouched at the edge of the ice, feeding the fires…
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Invisible Growth Doesn’t Mean It’s Dead
photo by Antione Demare via Unsplash I’ve been running – for the first time in my life. The endorphins are pretty nice. But I think what I like most is the feeling that I can DO things. I can decide I want to do something – something hard that people have told me not to,…
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Writing Anyway: Before the Niche (+ Spiders)
photo by Yogesh Gosavi on Unsplash At the core of the agony of multi-passionate niching is the fear of picking the wrong thing, an inauthentic path, that will lead us to hollow writing and another soulless livelihood. The solution, generally, after you read 10 thousand “finding your niche” essays, is to keep building anyway. Keep…
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42 Is the Answer, So What’s the Question?
photo by Di Chen via Unsplash “What is the meaning of life?” is a really bad question. It’s like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where superintelligent mice build a supercomputer to discover the meaning of life. It takes millions of years, and it finally gives the answer… 42! Turns out they never actually asked…
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When Writing Becomes a Self-Eating Snake
photo by Coppertitst Wu via Unsplash I keep wanting to write about writing. But then I think about Bob… My favorite job ever was tutoring English and philosophy in college. People would come into the tutoring center, and we could have long fascinating conversations about how they think, how to make something click for them,…