Five Books’ Backstories You’ve Probably Never Heard
Every Story Has A Story — Your #1 Newsletter for Accelerated Learning
Abandon All Hopelessness, Ye Who Enter Here –Anonymous, Found scribbled on a notecard at The Mission HQ
The Crazy Back-Stories of 5 Famous Books
As writers, comfort is our enemy. Habits (both good and bad) become chains. To create a masterpiece, you need adversity.
We need stakes, incentives, and creative constraints. Sometimes it’s only in a beautiful mess or when our world is falling apart that we have the perfect conditions to write our novel.
The best novels and books emerged out of enormous pressures. If you do want to create something that stands the test of time, be warned:
Give up all hopelessness, because it’s possible.
History is filled with examples of writers who created lasting work with far fewer resources than you have, and under far more hellish conditions.
Oh, and if you’re looking for a great read this month during #NaNoWriMo, I’d read or reread the books mentioned. Once you have more context about how a book was created, the story takes on a whole other level of significance and meaning.
When we know the story behind the story, the story becomes delicious. Yes, I can’t believe I said, “delicious” either. More coffee, please!
Some of our fav quotes…
45 Powerful Quotes About Education and Learning — October was Education Reform month at The Mission. We hope you enjoyed the content we shared, questions we raised, and topics we covered. Here are some of our favorite quotes from the month!
Friday Finds…
Being a Startup Founder is a minimum wage job — Here’s the proof — ICYMI. Brandon Evans presents some startling stats about the pay of startup founders (though probably not so startling to you founders out there). Check it out!
The Inherent Truth About Being A Woman — “Why is it more dangerous to be a woman than it is to be a man? And why have I never, in my whole life, questioned why this seems like an inalienable truth in the world?”
The secret to avoiding tunnel vision —
We’re living in increasingly isolated echo chambers. We friend people like us on Facebook. We follow people like us on Twitter. We read the news outlets that are on the same political frequency as us. We rely on the same neural pathways to regurgitate the same talking points and the same quotes, in order to reach the same conclusions. Our echo chambers get louder and louder with the sounds of the same voices.
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