Inneresting 93
issue 93
March 18th, 2021
Writing Things Down Before Getting Down to Writing
Managing Ideas - On Scriptnotes, John, Craig, and Aline Brosh McKenna talk about what to do with your half-formed ideas.
Organizing Ideas - Paul Harris shares Twyla Tharp’s technique of using project boxes from her book The Creative Habit. Matthew Guay shares thoughts on how Notes apps are a way of letting go of ideas (so you don’t need to carry them in your mind). Ryder Carroll applies the Bullet Journal method to managing ideas for creative work.
Processing and Building - Oliver Burkeman suggests a good note keeping system is a way to avoid starting with a blank page. The Zettelkasten method offers a strategy for storing notes and making connections. Nicole Bianchi collects examples of the notebooks of famous authors and how they organized and developed their ideas.
Writing is a Sprint AND a Marathon
Getting from Fade In to Fade Out takes repeated, persistant effort. When you set up a #WriteSprint, you’re committing to taking those next steps.
You can join us on Saturdays for our weekly 60 minute #WriteSprint, or set up your own! Post on Twitter or your favorite Discord writer’s group that you’re starting a #WriteSprint and find some accountability buddies to join in!
Maybe you can’t always set aside a full hour? That’s okay! Even a 15 minute sprint can help you move you forward.
To find out more about Write Sprints, and the other ways Highland 2 can help you focus on getting words onto the page, check out our Knowledge Base!
Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, in last issue’s most clicked link Dee Rees explains The Triple Bumper Theory on writing dialogue where characters disguise their true feelings and intentions.
Other Inneresting Things
Robert Lesser questions if Wordle is actually getting harder by analyzing player tweets.
A collection of links about 90s web design and the early internet at sadgirl.online.
Robin Sloan shares skepticism about Web3: “They tie themselves in knots trying to arrive at personhood in a universe of wallets.”
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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