This is Not Writing Advice

A MANIFESTO

We deserve to joyfully and shamelessly ignore any and all writing process advice that feels like it won't actually work for us.

We deserve well-designed approaches that let us experiment with what habits and systems will work for our own writing practice.

We deserve systems for sharing our work that are weirder and wilder than a chronological list of every newsletter we've ever sent.

We deserve to redefine our beliefs about the relationship between effort and outcome.

We deserve frameworks to look systematically at what works for our writing practice, without borrowing from the language of "productivity hacks," "habits optimization," or whatever else is popular with the tech bros.

We deserve to be the experts on our own writing process and creative life.

(This is a brand new, weird little experiment in thinking differently about writing process. You in?)