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Ideas and insights about how to write with power and originality—without the angst. See what happens when you ignite your imaginative intelligence!
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Sensationful (opens the original)
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Last week I was lying on the table of the brilliant Dr. Kirstie Macdonald Scott, practitioner of manual osteopathy. She pressed into the edge of a muscle in my hip. I made some kind of noise.“Sensationful?” she asked.“Yes,” I said.Isn’t it odd that we don’t have a common word for this very common experience? A word that simply means: feeling a lot of sensation. Instead, language forces us to judge it. Does it hurt? Does it feel good? Or often, in a situation like this, it hurts but it’s a good h
Bring the light back (opens the original)
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Come write with us ~Every Saturday at noon ET, one hour plus after-chat. Click here for the Zoom link to join us.You’ll discover a welcoming, supportive writing community—and a method that will change your approach to writing forever. Upcoming Imaginative Storm workshops & retreats<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T2o1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimage
The road to Moory (opens the original)
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Every sentence like a riddle with an answer sticking out its tongue (opens the original)
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Come write with us ~Every Saturday at noon ET, one hour plus after-chat. Click here for the Zoom link to join us.You’ll discover a welcoming, supportive writing community—and a method that will change your approach to writing forever. Upcoming Imaginative Storm workshops & retreats<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T2o1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimage
AI is our rational intelligence, metastasized (opens the original)
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