"Often rejections in our own minds.  You have to confront and get feedback,   look your own work in the face. So when you  have writer's block, what do you do? Living   life and writing when you can an..."

"you. I also do some copywriting on the side  and, um, for the start I would do copywriting   for there's like this real focus on kind  of trying to speak to these like resonant   truths of the human e..."

"reading, walking? I think reading is a lot of it.  Um, I have a friend who's also a writer who says   that she always listens to music when she writes  and then, She gets kind of inspiration from that..."

"alien to you, right? Like that's a line. And  I really believe that where I think a lot of   people kind of share the same commonality, like  the same threads through emotional experience.  So if I wr..."

"like at least emotionally speaking, that someone  else doesn't feel. How do you feel about the   difficult emotions and not running away from them  and actually trying to turn up the volume of those  ..."

"And it just so happens that. Something about  the residue of their words, Robost, in your,   in your craft. I think everyone who reads takes  away something from what they're reading. So   there's obv..."

"It's very stylized. And so I think that's one  approach where it's like a very stylized approach   to dialogue. And then, like, there are authors  who manage to make dialogue feel very natural.   And ..."

"Um, I think I lean towards like more adjectives,  like more complex sentences and. I generally have   a sense that I should probably like not  do that. Do you want to fight that nature   or do you wan..."

"but it's kind of the sense of, like, being  able to write something poignant in, like,   that little, like, So a few words is very  rare, I think, and most people need more words.  One thing I've just..."

"like, I don't know, maybe some people  can, but most people can't hold a very,   very complex, like, you know, you can't write  a whole dissertation in your head usually.  So, you need to be able to, ..."

"it was an Amtrak from New York to D. C., I sat  down next to an 82 year old woman who was getting   back in the dating game. And we just talked the  entire time, just total stranger, had a beautiful  ..."

"and can't go. And so basically it was this,  this maze that you would go through in this   pitch black area. And so you'd have to  go, there's a slide, there's, you know,   these, these, these chains ..."

"notion that Everything needs to be so perfect. And I was like, I'll make you a deal. It's like,   I'm not going to allow you to publish something  that's not good. Me and one of our other friends,   w..."

"it takes them so long to just like, be okay  putting something out there. And then like, they   don't realize that like, I guess, like half the  time, like, What you think other people will be   excit..."

"Strangers. People I know. They're gonna look  at what I publish. And they're gonna make   a A judgment about who I am as a person  and then at the same time, they're like,   I'm frustrated because no ..."

"they're not kind of like these refined thoughts  that are backed up with an argument, they're   people like posting, like just like posting  whatever comes to their mind in the moment,   I think you s..."

"does quantity lead to quality? I think it's just  practice. Like how can you get better if you   don't practice? And how can you practice if you're  embarrassed about writing badly in like a Google   ..."

"you can't really practice. I think it's very rare  for someone to, like, not be writing every day,   and then all of a sudden, like, this fully  fleshed idea for something great comes to them,   and e..."

"marriage. So basically, she and a student, a grad  student, fell in love, and she left her husband.   And... Married him and the reason why she did that  was because when she fell in love with this se..."

"to go towards certain course of action and like  make adjustments based on how my work is going.  But I think there's this idea  to me, at least at like. Yeah,   if you repeat something in the right w..."

"then my ability to write it down is like a  30. And I'm like, can I please just get that   to 40 or 50? And then, like, the reader has to  translate that into their own mind, and it ends   up being a ..."

"you like to to a guy because to write about you is  to exercise you I don't want to exercise you yet.  She actually thought that like Writing about it  meant that she could move through the experience..."

"journal at all. I've tried to keep a journal  about like 15 separate times in my life, and   I can't. Um, I think the thing that writing the  sub stack taught me was like, I should write when   I feel..."

"The Wikipedia fact based explanation of what  Paris is, is so different from your experiential   one. And I think that a lot of struggling  writers don't actually realize how different   those two thi..."

"And some are like, you know, these beautiful  descriptions of landscape and of nature. And   it's like, of course I can't be someone who  like doesn't write about like the interior.   Like if I don't ..."

"happens when you are not generating anything  like in your mind that you want to put down.  Um, and I think it stops when you start.  experiencing life in a way that makes you   want to write it down ..."

"can and making time for it. But also not agonizing  is super helpful because I am remembering now   that I used to have just these periods where I  would agonize over not being able to write and   tha..."

"other time I just kind of hung out and I started  writing again, but maybe this is the one time I   just hang out and then nothing ever happens. And that's just not a very good thought,   I think. I'v..."

"you know, able to become a successful comedian. Uh, I think there's something about   that. It's like very. Compelling to me.  It's like always throw out basically,   like just throw out everything yo..."

"conversations with friends where like they're  like, they don't necessarily believe that kind   of like going through an establishment path is  like what produces good writers. And obviously   like th..."

"and just like lots of practice writing about  different themes. So, um, one thing I wanted   to do is like take more writing workshops.  Like I think the workshop model was like very   interesting and..."

"like, Oh, I can just write in this space and like,  that's a way of practicing and getting better too.   And like, I can get feedback in real time. We think, I mean, I think about this all the   time ..."

"most helpful feedback is kind of like what hits  and what doesn't hit Yeah, like that is cold.  Yes. No Yeah, yeah, uh, even more than, I think  being edited on a sentence level is amazing,   but like..."

"writer is kind of being able to discover that  in your own work, like being able to figure   out what's extraneous and what's essential,  which I guess you can get with practice. How   do you know whe..."

"you yourself as the writer pay attention to it. Do you have any mantras that you use when you   write, that you have stirring in your mind?  I think, uh, what we're talking about, like,   the muse has..."

"your back on like what other people are paying  attention to and like just the difficulty of that.  Um, I think for some reason it's like really  helpful for me to know that other people find   writin..."

"resonate with it. Writing is torture. Sometimes.  Yeah, but sometimes it's really fun. In what ways?   I think writing, like we talked about, is very  aspirational for me in the sense of like, there's..."