I've found real magic in thinking on the page in the last year. I'd love for more people to experience this with me.

"When I sit down to write, the meadow is still engulfed in darkness under a sky where satellites pass by, one after the other. My thoughts are flighty and shapeless, like dreams; they morph as I approach them. But when I open my notebook and write, it is as if I pin my thoughts to the table. I can examine them." - Henrik Karlson

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Resources Mentioned:

- Why I Write by Joan Didion

- On Abandoning Capitalistic Achievement to Seek the Freedom of Play

- 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing

- A Life in Constant Potential

- the one about ai

- don't get it f*cked up fr

- Why You Should Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop

- Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog

- If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying

- Henrik Karlson: One of the World's Most Under-Rated Writers| How I Write

- Writing as Autonomy

- Writing Hack: Write it Just Like That

- Squibler.io Dangerous Writing Prompt

- In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching

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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Writing as Thinking02:40 Capacities Sponsorship04:03 Joan Didion 05:19 Communicating when you're NOT a verbal processor07:10 Childhood hints that you're a writer08:43 Writing Holds Your Questions 10:06 Spotting Intrinsic Artistic Mediums 10:49 Addressing AI Slop Writing14:02 Writing as Pathological Caring 16:16 Writing is about Power 17:32 Writing in a Memoir Style20:55 Writing Essays23:30 Being willing to be stupid in public25:39 Calling out Conflicting Thoughts 26:59 Approach "I Write to Know What I'm Thinking" With Caution28:28 The Value in the Rewriting Process