An experiment of writing a story longhand from start to finish. Read the rules of the challenge here: Writing Sumarian - Episode 1 - Rules & Introduction. This Week's Lesson(s) on Writing a Story Longhand: I had unfortunately used up half the page for Chapter 3 on Chapter 2 stuff. It just kept coming to …
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An experiment of writing a story longhand from start to finish. Read the rules of the challenge here: Writing Sumarian - Episode 1 - Rules & Introduction. This Week's Lesson(s) on Writing a Story Longhand: Trust the Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQwcJB9k7c&t=1513s As Ryan Holiday points out in his recent interview with Ali Abdaal (above), "it's hard to …
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An experiment of writing a story longhand from start to finish. Read the rules of the challenge here: Writing Sumarian - Episode 1 - Rules & Introduction. This Week's Lesson(s) on Writing a Story Longhand: Outlining Chronologically Gets You to Finish Last week I worried about giving secrets of the story away in case I …
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An experiment of writing a story longhand from start to finish. Read the rules of the challenge here: Writing Sumarian - Episode 1 - Rules & Introduction This Week's Lessons on Writing a Story Longhand: A little bit at a time and it'll get done I think it was James Clear, writer of Atomic Habits, …
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Note: Book Notes = summary of current book+ insights/personal interpretations + incorporation of prior knowledge Introduction: Willpower & Habits According to James Clear in Atomic Habits, goals aren't what separate successful people from unsuccessful—it's habits. But if you think about it, setting up a habit is a goal in itself. So we still need to …
Lesson 4: Plot Story is about revealing character and causality (i.e., when one event leads to the next, which leads to the next and so on and so forth until the inevitable end). “Try to write every chapter as if it’s the first chapter of the book - try to write every chapter as if …
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Stephen Guise is the founder of Deep Existence, a blog about self-development, and the writer of Mini Habits, a book about his personal philosophy on how to get things done (with research that backs up some of his arguments). I found the book to be a pretty good starting point for personal development and so without …
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