While not essential, sustained practice has many benefits. One of them is that you may spend more time in a state of flow.
Writing
Ray Bradbury’s word association game
Add Ray Bradbury’s word association game to your writing practice and see what happens.
One question to ask before using AI in writing
What if your reader knew exactly how you used AI to create the text? Would that risk your relationship with the reader?
Getting curious with open-ended questions
What if there was a magical incantation you could chant before writing that would help you achieve a flow state?
Writing to Fill Your Tank
If you believe that writing will be a difficult slog, you’re probably right. If you believe it will fill your tank, that might happen as well. Our expectations become prophecies.
Re-Humanizing Language
Human beings are abstraction-makers. We love using labels and categories to group things and make sense of the world. The ability to think and speak in abstractions makes modern civilization possible—and saves us time as well. But categories have a cost. When groups of people become an abstract category, they feel more distant, less human. […]
