"The best books contain a singular similarity; every author started, wrote, re-wrote and finished."
“Witness other people as they experience your work and watch your work reveal itself to you in a totally different light. Start off with an imaginary editor, but eventually, to get anywhere, you need to hold your work up to a human mirror.”
#GTD
#WRITING
#Process
#Creativity
#james buckhouse
![GPOY. GPOY. GPOY.
via [Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web - The Oatmeal]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjs0vRVYk1r3elr6o1_250.jpg)
GPOY. GPOY. GPOY.
via [Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web - The Oatmeal]"6. Writer’s Block does not exist. Ideas come from everywhere. There’s a saying (attributed to Isaac Asimov) that most scientific achievements start not with a “Eureka!” but with a “That’s odd…” This applies to writing, too. Think of what you notice that others don’t, and go from there. What is stopping you is not lack of inspiration, but lack of trust in your abilities."
#writing
#inspiration
#creativity
"It is a part of you that should never be writing — eight elegant fingers? Yes. A pencil in your mouth, or between your toes? Good job. Dictation? You are rich, and rich people are known for being good writers. But thumbs? No. Writing with thumbs means all rules about content are out the window; it’s such an unnatural physical act that it requires an unnatural vernacular. It is enormously freeing and enormously frightening, to be a modern thumb writer of the cyber age. (I made all this up just now but it actually does seem plausible.)"
#awesome
#twitter
#writing
#creativity
#poetry
#patricia lockwood
Made with Paper
Reading Jonah Lehrer on creativity. Chapter one: drugs and other drugs.