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🖼 Breeding Orphan Words
I want writing that is visual without images or diagrams. Instead, imagery can be laced into prose. How do you do it? Paint from the mind's eye.
📓 Introducing logloglog
Back in December, I started a public interstitial journal. A few times a day, maybe every hour or so, I'd write down what I was thinking. I was surprised at the benefits of this practice.
☀️ David Whyte
Gravity is a word that all dreamers must be acquainted with. Let us ponder these two words: "gravity" and "dreams;" for they share the same ethereal quality, yet they are always in tension with one other. The dreamer casts their focus beyond the clouds, while gravity
⚡️ Logs | February 2022
154 posts
🧿 Hunter S. Thompson
The epiphany of the “new year” hit me, as usual, three hours late. I’m always awake at midnight, but never conscious— I get caught up in written streams of glowing gibberish. The new year is a slow-moving tidal wave, and no one is spared as it rampages from time
🎙 The Science of Voice
Screw finding 30 ideas, I'll write ONE idea in 30 different ways. Sounds whacky... but there's a reason. Ideas & voice are separate writing skills. If you stop wrestling original ideas, you can learn to write better, faster... Blasphemy! Isn't "originality" the
⚡️ Logs | January 2021
69 posts
⚡️ Logs | December 2021
113 posts
🏚 Wilbur Doyle and the Walking-Distance Mysteries
Here's a short-story based on my whacky, real-life neighbor Wilbur Doyle. We often ignore the strange realities that are just next door.
🦎 Chameleon
Here's an excerpt from a long-form essay I'm writing on identity & social media. I don't have an intro yet, so I'm dropping you straight into section 1 (nine in total). Under "Related Writings" above, you'll find some other writings around similar ideas.
🔨 The Chisel or the Sledgehammer?
So you've just completed your first draft. Time to edit. You know your piece could be so much better. But how? The sentences look frozen, nearly impossible to change. Each one whispers, " Please go easy on me!" You have an arsenal of tools ****available in your
👻 Boo & the Writing Demons
I've been writing online for around a year now. There are all sorts of tips and tactics I've acquired, but none of them matter if you don't muster up the courage to face some root-level fears. Don't let some un-wrestled demons sabotage
🎈 Writing as Life Extension
Our ideas around life-extension are dated: The brain in a vat. Cryogenically frozen billionaires. Uploading our brain via USB-C to a Ray Kurzweil server. Nano-bugs that live in our veins to regenerate organs as we age. All these methods are concerned with preserving consciousness itself. It frames perception as a
🔺 Maslow's Hierarchy for Writers
"Why Write Online?" It's an important question, and we might be thinking about it wrong. I used to think it was open to interpretation. To each their own. Lately, I've realized my answer mysteriously evolves the more I write. The importance of "finding
🤺 Word Sketching
Jack Kerouac wasn't a painter, but a writer that "sketched" with words. He'd conjure up specific memories from his experiences, and then madly jot out the details of images. 💡At the back of a sweaty crowded bus on the way home from science camp,