Create your own language! (Idea prompted by Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language". 

SCWW Ep. 0001: Create your own language

Find a motivational phrase or metaphor to push yourself beyond your limits.

SCWW Ep. 0002: When you reach your limits, laugh and keep going

Listen to, play, and add music or instruments into your writing.

SCWW Ep. 0003: Listen to music and to your emotions

Poetry grants you creativity that prose doesn't always. Give writing a poem a whirl!

SCWW Ep. 0004: Write a Poem

Draw a picture of your setting. Then imagine the stories that could take place there.

SCWW Ep. 0005: Draw a picture of your setting

An easy way to write about what you love and bring new readers to your original work.

SCWW Ep. 0006: Write fan fiction

Seek "to voice" and then you will find "your voice". 

SCWW Ep. 0007: Your voice and producing an image

To maintain or jumpstart your daily writing goals, consider flash fiction. I'm writing flash fiction on twitter @briefstory

SCWW Ep. 0008: Flash fiction on Twitter

Pick a favorite movie scene for dialogue inspiration, then augment one of your scenes with loud dialogue.

SCWW Ep. 0009: Write loud dialogue

I'm writing Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Training my eye, ear, heart, and wrists.

SCWW EP. 0010: Write someone else's novel

Haseeb shares his Mental Catalog technique during my latest shakeup.tv interview.

Mental Catalog, a Technique from Haseeb Qureshi

SCWW Ep. 0011: Give another writer 15 minutes of writing feedback

SCWW Ep. 0012: See What's Up at reddit/r/writinghub

Theseus’s Ship has Sailed: Book Review of “The Strange Death of Europe”
Douglas Murray urges readers to take notice of the fatal blow Europe’s politicians have already dealt the European civilization.

Allons Travailler! 001: Theseus's Ship has Sailed, Book Review of 'The Strange Death of Europe'

Liberty’s Dim Light: Book Review of China Miéville’s “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” and “Iron Council”

China Miéville holds a Ph.D. (2001) in International Relations from the London School of Economics, is a member of the socialist democratic party in England, and the founding editor of Salvage, a quarterly of revolutionary arts and letters. He wrote ‘Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law’, but is perhaps best known as an author of fiction, where for his novels he has won among other awards the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, and Locus literary honors.

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Allons Travailler! 002: Liberty’s Dim Light: Review “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”

The Trigger-Happy Mouse Trap & Goal-Setting from First Principles: Book Review of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark shed tears after emerging from a London science museum in 2014, but by early 2017, his heart had warmed.
In Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI, Tegmark explains his concern that all might be lost if AI security issues are not taken seriously.

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Allons Travailler! 003 - The Trigger Happy Mouse Trap, Life 3.0: On Being Human in the Age of AI

If you want to learn about cognitive biases all humans share, you might start with Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, or the paper he wrote in 1974 with friend and colleague Amos Tversky, ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’.

Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner have given us an interesting way to practice doing so in their book, Super Forecasting. In their story about a relatively small group of super forecasters who beat IARPA’s own government-backed researchers in a tournament of geopolitical forecasting, Tetlock and Gardner provide a blueprint for beginning one’s own journey of forecasting better than the average human (or at least better than you yourself do now).

You can support my work at https://patreon.com/evm/

Allons Travailler! 004 - All of Life is a Wager (Super Forecasting by Philip E. Tetlock)

Every week, I write essays about the most important books I'm reading. As a science fiction writer, I also like to ask What if? as a start to short fiction and novels.

Erik van Mechelen - Essays and Fiction

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