Oh that’s fantastic, thank you. I was also reminded yesterday of Christine Schutt’s “directing sentence“ concept - the sentence in para 1 that contains everything the story is about

- @alexanderchee.bsky.social & @mdbell79.bsky.social I feel like you were a part of this convo? There were a bunch of people, it was really great.

This brings the Dread Cycle™:

Work on personal projects
Need to make money to survive
Pause personal work
Build small safety net
Back to personal work
Need to make money to survive...

Every pause hurts personal work, so the thing we want to be our focus/income never gets traction in survival mode.

my fav essay in that collection, and that is a wild collection

*listens to the trickster at once*

ross don't lie you just want to talk about 'pisces iscariot'

oh hell yeah