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If reading is like eating words…
If reading is like eating words and digesting ideas, writing must be like cooking. If you think that way, your piece of writing will turn into food you could make in a million different possible ways. Food for thought or food for the mere delight of savoring words.
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is caffeine an imposter?
What’s your relation to caffeine? It’s everywhere, you know? Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, guarana, energy drinks, some medicines… Where does your daily dose of caffeine come from? And when do you feel you NEED it?
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what’s beyond the dark room of hard work?
Whoever told you it was gonna be easy was lying. Or they forgot about a very important step of the process. You can’t just achieve goals by snapping your finger. You have to work. Really hard. And yes, work smart too. Productivity gurus are not completely wrong about it. Just don’t listen to them when they imply that being mediocre is fine. It’s not. They just say it to sell books, courses, and coaching services to mediocre people. Because that’s what they wanna hear. But hard work is still a thing. It’s the next step after you cross that mediocrity line. I’m telling you this because you might be feeling…
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Good writers will always break your heart
You have a favorite author. You read everything they write and whenever there’s a new book by them, you buy it, no questions asked. Truth is that one day they will disappoint you. But they will do that because they’re good writers. They may repeat a formula and end up making their books feel the same and not interesting. But there’s something different in all of them. They may try something new other than their usual historical or science fiction and write a bad book of fantasy. But they tried to navigate other seas. You might find their early works and notice how not so good they were. Their failures…
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How to make time for reading and writing
There’s one thing you have to understand. I always say this. You don’t find time for what you love, you make time for it. In a series of posts on Instagram that did a while ago about obstacles for reading more, the first topic was “time to read”. I wanted to jump right into the biggest problem that everybody creates for not reading. I restate what I said back then. I don’t have much spare time either. I’m a full-time lawyer, I have two kids, I do a lot of things during the day. And yea, sometimes it’s stressful and most of the time I end up not doing something.…
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Fantastic Thoughts and How to Unclutter Them
Having a creative mind can be exhausting sometimes. We often lose ourselves in a million thoughts at the same time and we easily let them clutter and fog our brains.
