Hate Writing Less

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Hate Writing Less

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Introduction

Begin here, please.

Course intro (video, 3:06)

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How to use the course (video, 3:16)

Course origin story (video, 3:31)

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Your goals (video, 1:49)

Invitation: your goals

Opening remarks

Some basic principles I hold to be self-evident

You are already perfect (video, 5:15)

The anti-grinding principle (video, 3:43)

Preview

Invitation: grind, then don't

There are two genres (video, 3:47)

Invitation: the truth, and lies

Don't do your best (video, 3:19)

Invitation: do kind of a shitty job

Ideas

Start with the obvious (video, 3:45)

Invitation: document the obvious

Write ten bad ideas (video, 3:38)

Invitation: ten bad ideas

Approaching big subjects (video, 2:53)

Invitation: a big subject

Evaluating ideas (video, 3:08)

Invitation: evaluate your ideas

Generation

Write first drafts quickly (video, 3:39)

Invitation: write something quickly

Start from where you are (video, 3:07)

Invitation: start from where you are

First drafts are experiments (video, 4:09)

Invitation: write something to be discarded

Working with perfectionism (video, 3:40)

Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 1

Mindset

The art of mindset (video, 3:01)

Invitation: introspect

Understanding creative anxiety (video, 4:09)

Invitation: consider what makes you creatively anxious

The scrappy hero mindset (video, 2:57)

Invitation: become a scrappy hero

The beauty of the entertainer mindset (video, 4:47)

Invitation: think about the entertainer mindset

The conversationalist mindset (video, 3:42)

Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 2

Editing

No time at the editing desk is wasted (video, 3:42)

On defensive editing (video, 2:08)

Editing sideways (video, 2:24)

Try just deleting sentences

See if you should cut out the beginning

Understand the effort curve

Believe that you can rewrite it

How to kill your darlings

How to get better feedback

Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 3

Common Fears

What if my writing is unoriginal? (video, 2:49)

What if I sabotage myself? (video, 5:54)

Is it okay that I'm creating because I want people to like me? (video, 3:44)

What if I don't have a great knowledge management system? (video, 2:50)

What if I'm afraid of criticism? (video, 3:52)

Invitation: what if you're scared of something else?

Work and Non-Work

On daily writing habits (video, 4:10)

Invitation: look at your habits

Consider the power of social accountability (video, 4:45)

Invitation: try some social accountability

Remember to work, or not work (video, 3:38)

Invitation: don't work

Extracurricular writing, why do it (video, 2:11)

Invitation: delight somebody

Growth

What's 'better'? (video, 3:19)

Invitation: feel with the keyboard

Three kinds of stealing (video, 3:32)

Invitation: let yourself be influenced

Sometimes better is worse (video, 2:17)

Invitation: do a new thing, badly

Sometimes better is less (video, 2:18)

Invitation: phone it in

Concluding remarks

Maybe you're limiting yourself (video, 4:15)

Invitation: observe your limits

Include some chaos (video, 3:00)

Invitation: add some chaos

Follow the easy magic (video, 3:40)

Invitation: consider what's easy

Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 4

Conclusion, of a sort (video, 3:07)

One last parting note (video, 1:56)

Invitation: reflect

Bonus videos

Imagined audiences and the power of artistic restriction (video, 3:24)

The balance between improving and letting go (video, 4:10)

So you want to write a book (video, 3:31)

The courage to be disliked (video, 4:00)