Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Keeping a "writer's notebook" in public imposes unbeatable rigor. You can't slack off ...
Keeping a "writer's notebook" in public imposes unbeatable rigor. You can't slack off and leave notes so brief and cryptic that they neither lodge in your subconscious nor form a record clear enough to refer to in future. By contrast, keeping public notes produces a subconscious, supersaturated solution of fragmentary ideas that rattle around, periodically cohering into nucleii that crystallize into full-blown ideas for stories, novels, essays, speeches and nonfiction books.
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