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Let me make one thing very clear: writing is damn hard work. The simple mechanics of turning to a fresh page in a notebook, opening a text file or the admin panel of your website are one thing. But what trips most people up lies in the confusion and frustration behind cracking the nut of discipline and focusing on the deliverable. Creativity is often a painful and seemingly unnatural act. Even after years of earning a living as a writer, I’ve still not reconciled the tensions between physical act of writing and the emotional satisfactions that comes from actually having written

from Jason Konopinski: Develop The Discipline & Do The Work | Jason Konopinski - Write. Think. Do.

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Diseases, travel, culture, food, stuff: from and found by Maryn McKenna, author, magazine writer, blogger for Wired.

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