The Tim Ferriss Show
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This is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking hours: writing. Over the years, I’ve asked some of the writers I admire most questions like: How do you choose a project and stay with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up? How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? And how do you keep going when you fear your pages are terrible? Listen in to some of my favorite authors answer these and other questions. Please enjoy this special compilation on the craft of writing. This episode is brought to you by: • ProLon science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through fasting, while still eating nourishing meals • AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 01:52 — Elizabeth Gilbert: Choosing and committing to a project 06:25 — Anne Lamott: Shitty first drafts and taking it bird by bird 13:04 — Joyce Carol Oates: Don’t wait for inspiration 15:47 — Jerry Seinfeld: Building a writing system 26:27 — Mary Karr: Revision and throwing out 1,200 pages 35:08 — Brandon Sanderson: Consistency, word counts, and output 45:0