While I love writing, I struggle to begin every time. I am told openings have to be catchy in an economy that competes for attention, where the abundance of choice is only a swipe away. Hooks become provocations, tending toward outrage in order to grab the reader with a firm hand and elicit a reaction, [...]
We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t. The very idea that we can change the system is what keeps it intact. It feeds the illusion that we stand outside it, looking down like engineers or gods, swapping one system for another. But that separation is false. We are not outside. We are the [...]
Coconut Thinking 