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The house the cheese the rat the cat the dog chased caught ate lay in was built by Jack.
page: 38
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writing
To write is to step away from the current moment. Or to step much deeper into it than you need. Either way, it is always to be one foot askew.
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writing
Some days it feels like you just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
page: 8
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writing
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
page: 19
tags:
writing
growth
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
page: 52
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writing
lying
I'm the person whose job it is to hold the lantern while the kid does the digging. I don't even know what the kid is digging for half the time--but I know gold when I see it.
page: 56
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writing
If you're a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold.
page: 66
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observation
writing
When you start off writing, you may want to fill the page with witticisms and shimmering insights so that the world will see how uniquely smart and sensitive you are. But much of the drama of humankind does not involve witticisms and shimmer.
page: 104
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drama
writing
wit
insight
One of the things that happens when you give yourself permission to start writing is that you start thinking like a writer. You start seeing everything as material. Grist for the mill.
page: 136
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material
writing
If you look around, I think you will find the person you need. Almost every writer I've ever known has been able to find someone who could be both a friend and a critic. You'll know when the person is right for you and when you are right for that person.
page: 171
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writing
Write down everything that happens to you, then take out the parts that feel self-indulgent.
page: 193
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writing
The real payoff is the writing itself, a day when you have gotten your work done. The total dedication is the point.
page: 215
tags:
writing
dedication
Writing is like building sand castles out of words. We believe, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
page: 231
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writing
People need writers to mirror for them and for each other without distortion. To say, "This is who we are."
page: 234
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writing
So why does our writing matter? Because of the spirit. Because of the heart. Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
page: 237
tags:
writing
spirit
heart
isolation
life
soul
Stories have the amazing dual power to simulate and to inspire. And most of the time we don't even have to use much creativity to harness these powers--we just need to be ready to spot the good ones that life generates every day.
page: 237
tags:
writing
stories
Seen on quora:
"Journaling is like whispering to oneself and listening at the same time." - Mina Murray
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writing
Monitor writing stats. "Writing+". Achievements based on things like days in a row, most words written in a day personal best, complexity of writing--words per sentence, sentences per paragraph. Use the data to improve clarity of writing and vary its structure.
page: 163
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writing