Writing, Play, and Finding Genius

It’s a nice vision — the writer, sitting confidently in front of their laptop or notebook in some hole-in-the-wall coffee shop or home office, sips a sippy-sip beverage and, eyes closed, listens to their muse. Their fingers clackity-clack away or move their pen at a ridiculously impressive speed, their opus manifesting with the progressing ticks…

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Are You a Bad Writer? Here’s the Truth

In my usual browse of article headlines on Feedly this morning, I stumbled across this gem from Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic. Giorgis declared that much of what’s on Netflix these days is mediocre. In her view, we’re allowing our boredom to get the best of us when it comes to selecting what we watch. Even a…

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