Categorie: Essays
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A short note on unfinished drafts
A draft that never ships is not a failure. Keep it in a folder called unfinished, and open it once a season. Some drafts close themselves; some turn into the next essay.
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On keeping a notebook you actually reread
Most notebooks fail because they are written for the day and never read again. Try one rule: once a month, read the last four weeks from start to finish and mark one line that still matters. The marked lines become the next month’s topics. The notebook becomes a conversation with yourself instead of a pile.