Hate Writing Less
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Introduction

Course intro (video, 3:06)
How to use the course (video, 3:16)
Course origin story (video, 3:31)
Your goals (video, 1:49)
Invitation: your goals
Opening remarks

You are already perfect (video, 5:15)
The anti-grinding principle (video, 3:43)
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)

Invitation: consider what makes you creatively anxious

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