Sasha Chapin
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February 23rd, 2021
- Convo w Sasha Chapin about writing coaching
- M > "having no demands of my future self"
- my future self can't do anything for me anyway
- S > you're very verbally expressive, you have a lot to say, a lot going on in your head etc
- but you haven't found a... something
- people adapt themselves into ruts
- hard to find the jump on your own
- "production function"
- M > people say I take a long time to get to the point, both with my tweetstorms and with my blog posts
- S > ...sort of. More like your presence on the page isn't constant.
- a lot of good writing has a kind of 1am barstool quality, where the two people talking are the only people in the room
- (aside: he has a colorful orb thing and I'm thinking it would be cool to have sync'd-over-zoom color lights for a call)
- would give a sense of shared context
- Neitzche - an idea is never just an idea
- it's also got a ball of hot stuff
- and sometimes in your writing those get disconnected
- meandery
- not necessarily bad, but yeah
- what if you wrote from a place of conviction...
- [then maybe edited to...?]
- M > that would require me to want to edit tho
- school stuff
- S > is there a version of editing that doesn't suck so much
- is there a version of editing that's good?
- S > self-editing is kind of like rubber-ducking
- notice what the common critiques of you are, and ask if you're doing those things
- eg me, being glib
- S > one technique I use sometimes is writing draft 2 with draft 1 up next to me
- but not copy-paste
- work on writing with a friend
- eg Ben Hoffman, since you said he had thoughts on your writing before
- incorporate their suggestions
- S > strengths are weaknesses & vv
- your introspective vibe means you'll lose viscerality, but you won't be full of shit so much
- S > what we might work on
- M > idk, I want more surface area
- M > UX, perspective-taking
- S > on some level, it's all entertainment
- S > being okay that not every piece of writing does everything
- & re UX, portable chunks
- M >
- S > nonmonoticity
- M > fun very important