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    if I could offer you only one tip

    February 3, 2022 /

    If I could offer you only one tip for the future of your writing, sunscreen (no!) READ MORE would be it. The best way to learn to write is to read.

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    is a book what you want it to mean or what the author wanted it to say?

    November 9, 2021

    on choosing a path between noise and stories

    October 25, 2021

    I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time.

    January 25, 2022
  • writer

    I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time.

    January 25, 2022 /

    I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time. I was watching some famous screenwriters talking about their writing process and I immediately thought, Wait a minute, that makes perfect sense. I raised my eyebrows and found a little lightbulb shining next to my head, you know what I mean? My process would be so much better and simpler if I did that! I’d divide this process into three steps: FIRST STEP — gather, collect, and freely hoard notes, beats, characters, themes, ideas, dialogues, scenes, and everything they can, even sketches and pictures if that is the case. SECOND STEP — filter and organize the mess, separate the wheat…

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    is a book what you want it to mean or what the author wanted it to say?

    November 9, 2021

    how to be mindful in small chunks

    November 5, 2021

    on writing and social media

    January 31, 2022
  • reader

    what is a good definition of reading?

    November 16, 2021 /

    Reading is more than just looking at ink on paper and fluently making something out of it. Reading is…

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    create opportunities, share your work

    October 20, 2021

    on reading lists and reading projects

    November 4, 2021

    I took a break from reading for a while

    October 26, 2021
  • writer

    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and how to be a writer of the world

    November 11, 2021 /

    The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, or *language relativity* hypothesis, is a principle that suggests that the structure of a language affects its speaker’s perceptions and thoughts, thus affecting their behavior.

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    how to earn the title of author when all we do is write

    November 1, 2021

    some thoughts about indie vs traditional publishing (2021)

    November 2, 2021

    we should reverse engineer the books we read in order to write better

    October 21, 2021
  • writer

    how to earn the title of author when all we do is write

    November 1, 2021 /

    We write and we put our words on paper. No matter what kind of paper that is or if it’s even real paper in the first place. The same question pops up anyway. How do I go from writing to becoming an author?

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    a very simple list of six arguments in defense of lists

    November 10, 2021

    the write structure and you in a hero’s journey

    October 27, 2021

    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and how to be a writer of the world

    November 11, 2021
  • writer

    the write structure and you in a hero’s journey

    October 27, 2021 /

    It starts with a dilemma. A moment in the story when the character is faced with a difficult choice between two either good or bad things. We begin with dilemmas because they center stories.

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    on choosing a path between noise and stories

    October 25, 2021

    some thoughts about indie vs traditional publishing (2021)

    November 2, 2021

    I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time.

    January 25, 2022
  • Archives,  writing

    how to organize your writing life today

    July 5, 2021 /

    How do you organize your writing life? I'm gonna talk about the things that work for me, which means you don't have to follow everything like a rule or something, but I’m sure I’m gonna help you with this post.

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    on memories, hysteria, and writing

    May 21, 2021

    what are the rules for focused success in a distracted world?

    June 14, 2021

    Creative Reading and Reading Like a Writer

    April 21, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  writing

    when you don’t have ideas to write

    June 28, 2021 /

    You wake up one day with an urge to write something. A story. “A book”? And then you sit in front of the blinking cursor or a piece of paper and nothing comes out.

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    Three months of blogging

    April 1, 2021

    untranslatable words…

    March 12, 2021

    on traveling without traveling

    March 6, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  writing

    gimme six hours or seven years

    June 23, 2021 /

    Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

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    can it fit into a paragraph?

    May 12, 2021

    on bibliotherapy and books as remedies for life’s ailments

    June 24, 2021

    what if you have a full-time job?

    May 24, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  writing

    how to write a novel like an architect

    June 16, 2021 /

    This will help you get out of whatever you’re calling a writer’s block. You know what an architect does, they design buildings and some have an interior designer role too. Imagine you’re an architect like that and your next book is a construction project. Now, think of a story as a floor plan first. We’re gonna draw it together here. Can you hear the scratches of the pencil on the paper? Listen to it. And keep that sound in your head. Here’s gonna be the beginning room, then you enter this door to find the middle room. It’s a large hall with many doors. We draw a big hall here…

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    What are you reading?⁣ Or Social Media Day

    June 30, 2021

    It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life… for me.

    May 3, 2021

    If Instagram were just the door…

    July 1, 2021
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