“The fact is that I have hardly ever taken time off to write. Writing with me must be an in-between thing. When it comes to rewriting it is different. But the first draft must be put together on the run.”
– Eric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
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“Not a single word of this book has been written in my office – just as David Ogilvy did not write a single advertisement in the office (‘Too many distractions,’ he said). And perhaps 80 per cent of it has been written on days where I had done pretty much nothing the previous day. As John Lennon observed, ‘Time spent doing nothing is rarely wasted’, yet the modern world seems to do all that it can to destroy the moments where alchemy might flourish.”
– Rory Sutherland, Alchemy
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To write, I want to avoid the terror of commitment.
I want my first thoughts to be casual.
I don’t want to propose marriage straight away.
When I put them down on paper, it’s just a first date.
I need to get to know them before I make them permanent.
A formal writing practice can seem like a heavy commitment.
To sit at a desk with an empty screen.
Worried about commmiting ideas to the Word file.
Performance anxiety.
I embrace casual writing.
A scribble on the notepad here.
A tap on the iPhone here.
I am a liberated writer.
I have a hand on the run.
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