For the past couple of weeks I’ve taken note of how long it takes me to get bored of an activity that involves reading. 1000 words. That’s my personal cutoff. 1000 words of a book. 1000 words of a blog post (or two). Even when I’m reading twitter, I’ll get bored after around …
Whenever you write, there’s always that mean voice in your head that keeps saying that you need to write much, muchbetter. Shut it up by reading some books and making small tweaks to your writing workflow (this is a 2-part blog post). These books are great, obviously. I’ve read them, I’ve learned a …
I obsess over things for weeks and then ignore them completely for the rest of my life. Here’s what I’ve been obsessing over for the past couple of weeks: Good Writing and Mary H.K. Choi Mary H.K. Choi After going on my street photography binge, I went back to read some more stuff about Daniel …
My experience with writing outside of school is very limited. Come to think of it, my experience of writing in school ends with a 10-page research paper I wrote in Paris about the catastrophic consequences of decreasing bee populations around the world, and that was 3 years ago. In those days I …