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The importance of patience in an urgent world

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“You can’t be patient and productive at the same time.”

Think about what you actually want to write. Not simply and plainly what’s in your head — you want the reader to feel. Show, don’t tell, like your 1st-grade teacher said. That’s what makes writing good to you, right? Like CJ’s blog posts — they make you feel like you’re actually living in them. Come down from the world of abstract concepts of what it means to be a good person in theory or whatever, and touch the ground. More nouns, less adjectives. More specific personal anecdotes. Make it feel like a story that you’re actually living, like a movie but in words. Make it feel real. Good…

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