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what are you reading this week?
Out of the many content pillars I’ve created to keep writing every day on social media, my what-are-you-reading post is one of my favorites…
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reading Atonement by Ian McEwan
Have you ever noticed how the beginning of a book can tell a lot about the whole story? I suggest you do this exercise. Pick your favorite books and read the beginning again…
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what is a good definition of reading?
Reading is more than just looking at ink on paper and fluently making something out of it. Reading is…
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how to make time for reading and why this is not a how-to post like any other else you’ve read before
This is not going to be the first time I talk about this. And this is not gonna be the first time you’re gonna need to read this. Making time for reading is one of the biggest challenges of modern life, and it’s so challenging that most people end up thinking it's impossible or impracticable. But it’s not.
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is a book what you want it to mean or what the author wanted it to say?
I want to provoke a reflection here without telling what I think about it. And before you decide not to keep reading this, that’s exactly the point of this post.
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reading life and the joy of worlds within it
You might know the Lion or the Witch and even the Wardrobe. If you don’t, you should just know that any wardrobe is a very foolish place to shut oneself into, but there’s a magical one.
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a tale of two cups of coffee and how to improve your creative craft
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I know. I’d just come out of bed, still trying to figure out my mood. It was morning. That, I can rest assured. For I was craving coffee, and…
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on choosing a path between noise and stories
Thought: when our writing lacks a good story, this might lead to noisy and random content instead of something that our readers will mindfully consume and perceive.
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rereading is madness. but who knows where madness lies?
How many times do you find yourself reading a book you’ve already read? ...again? And if that happens a lot, what do you think you’re gonna find when doing that?
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we should reverse engineer the books we read in order to write better
Is that how you improve your writing? Pick a book, disassemble it, examine it, analyze it in detail, discover the concepts of its structure, produce something similar, pick a new book, repeat.