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Friday Links - Dec 4, 2020
Tips to Spark Your Creativity
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Tips to Spark Your Creativity
David from the future: David's Daily Marginalia (also called David's Daily Journal) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. Daily Marginalia has become the most freeing experience. A public/private place to post. Public because anyone can see it, but private
As writers, we're encouraged to develop author platforms, where we build our audience through a collection of social media and outreach. That was the original intention of this website and my newsletter, but lately it’s turned into my own weird little experiment—not at all what I
> Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. I've often mistakenly this statement belonged to Victor Frankl. I am not the only one. Many people have misattributed [https:
This is a note-taking system designed by Niklas Luhmann [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann], a sociology professor who used it to write an astonishing 58 books and hundreds of articles over 30 years. The concept behind it is to use index cards or slips of paper to capture
1 Yesterday's problem and essay [https://www.davidgane.com/recognition-and-action/] got me thinking about Keith Johnstone's 1979 book Impro [https://www.keithjohnstone.com/writing?lightbox=dataItem-izi8j5g32]. He talks about reincorporation and the idea of reintroducing previous characters, moments, or ideas—especially when you get stuck—instead
1 This week, I've been trying to work through a reveal, where one character has to discover information that they weren't even aware existed. The trouble with this problem was that I wanted it not to feel too coincidental, mostly since the character was utterly oblivious
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* Merriam Webster has a tool to find out when a word was first in print [https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/2020]. * Squibbler [https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app] is a writing app that makes your writing disappear (like completely unrecoverable) if stop for too long. * The Ludwig search engine [https://ludwig.
> If you look through design history and you see something that looks really radical, that’s what you’re going to be doing now. If you think that’s nice, that’s what you’ve already been doing. If you think it’s tired, that’s what you were
1 I have never played RPGs (although my kids have), but Tales' End [https://boyproblems.itch.io/tales-end], recommended by Morgan, my TA, is intriguing. Focused on storytelling and improvisation, it can be played with up to six players, or can be done by one person as a journalling
One of my hopes to do with these daily journals is to start creating my own digital garden of ideas [https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/] . I have a collection of notes that I have gathered over time and placed into my Bear app, but they just
The strangest thing that has started to occur is that I have started engaging with my own website more, searching for things I posted over the past few days in order to show others.
I want to share two notes. The first I found after watching the final season of The Good Place [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place]. This isn't a quote from the show, but a quote from The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching [https:
David from the future: David's Daily Journal (DDJ) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. 1 I think I've committed, at least for now to DDJ and retroactively changed all the previous to this title. I've also realized that
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A cathedral of books and some tools to help you write one of them.
David from the future: David's Daily Journal is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. 1 After yesterday’s David's Daily Journal (or whatever it ends up being called), I feel like more context and writing is required. I also haven’t