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Ellen Fishbein

30 days

🧵 Future of Publishing: 10 High-Conviction Views (1) The brightest readers are neglected by the publishing industry. Most publishers aim for the mass market and produce boring books, stuffed with fluff, optimized for predictable sales and not cover-to-cover enjoyment.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

After 20,000+ hours of collaboration with 400+ writers, my team and I developed a new framework for writing: — COMPOSE — C = Concept 🔥 O = Objective 🚀 M = Material 🎨📚🧩 P = Plan ♟ O = Organization 🏛 S = Style 🕶 E = Elegance 🥋 ** More—>

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

Wanna 10x your writing skills? Become a master of metaphor. "Metaphor? Like, fluffy poetry stuff?!" Yeah, no... the way it's taught in school is ABYSMAL. 😱 Aristotle wrote, “The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.” Here's what 90% of us didn't get in class:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@InternetH0F @dj_paulie_p taxation is the most inefficient yet bizarrely inevitable form of theft

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

Your awesome future & you:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

@OzolinsJanis Honest relevant poem:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

5 months

@ScottAdamsSays We would love to do it via , Scott. Our printshop is amazing, family-owned, decades of experience, based in Texas. 📧 ellen @altamira .studio

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

I have to say, @david_perell and I don’t agree on every single thing, but he is 100% right about this. 10 years ago, I started offering a freelance writing & editing service for literally $4/hour. Those who know me well understand just how far I’ve come over those 10 years. 🙃

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

My team & I wrote a manifesto. It's called "Disrupting Publishing in 700 Words." This will be an anchor for my next few years. Below is the first of 7 images in the essay. It encapsulates the last straw that led me to finally hit 'Publish'. ⚓️ Link:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

i've yet to meet even 1 person whose life was actually changed by Atomic Habits people THINK they've been changed, but aren't changed in reality i ask: "what new habits have you formed?" they never have an answer better than "i sometimes eat salad now!" there, i said it

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

~1 year ago, my team at Altamira Studio started openly discussing the problems we've seen in the publishing industry. we have a solution now. we call it The New Book Deal. 🤝 if the right people accept this deal, it will change the world. details:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

6 months

In July, I was afraid we wouldn’t make payroll in November unless we raised investor funds. It’s November. We haven’t raised any funds. We have made payroll. We’re not out of the woods yet, but we can see daylight. 😎🌤️ My friend & mentor @AdamDraper helped me reach this

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

10 months

@JoeAlderman11 @DelusionPosting I once had a *straight man* attempt to lecture me about how Quentin Tarantino is “an asshole” because his movies rarely pass the Bechdel test. 😖 I thought “WTF?!” I told him I didn’t give a damn about that crap & neither does any real artist

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

@wynnandrewj It helps a lot if you use colors. Laugh as much as you like, but it *will* help you see how your time is spent. I use: * blue: external mtg * green: internal mtg * dark purple: solo tasks * bright purple: gym/walks * light green: errands * dark blue: family/friend commitments

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

Why do we write? There are 2 reasons: 1) To communicate something to others. 2) To communicate something to yourself—to understand. Some people say “writing is thinking,” & that’s true. This means you can get tremendous value from writing something without publishing it.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

I wrote this in 2019 & I still feel much the same way about the subject.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

📜 Notes: 💡 COMPOSE doesn’t always happen linearly. E.g. you might already have some material, then discover a concept. 💡 That said, walking through COMPOSE linearly can help writers get unstuck, even mid-project. 💡 I welcome ALL questions! Article:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

22 days

I spent several years working exclusively as a writing coach. At that time, @david_perell described my talent as “Rick Rubin for writers.” Watching this video, David’s comparison rings true enough—except that unlike Rick, I have a lot of technical ability, especially as an

Peyman Milanfar

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23 days

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

4 evergreen writing prompts 🌲 * Write down what you find yourself repeating. * What conversation do you most want to have? * Think of the last time you felt misunderstood. Bridge that gap. * That thing you're scared to write? Write that.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

If you want to get better at writing, write more emails! Not newsletters. Plain-jane 1:1 emails. Use a pen pal or a colleague. ;) Why? The #1 mistake people make when writing, including BESTSELLING authors, is forgetting that writing is just communication—one human to another.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

1 true believer > 10,000 ‘followers’

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

it’s come to my attention that members of my extended family are wondering if i “have a job” 2 reactions ~ 1. achievement unlocked! this must mean i’m a real entrepreneur 2. time to grow Altamira like hell, so nobody questions what I’m doing with my life. 🔥

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@jonnym1ller there are lots of “hacks” to share in response to this question, and I trust others will share them. But the more important, deep-down, intuitive thing to realize if you want to incorporate more reading into your lifestyle is that **time moves far more slowly when you aren’t

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

@brutedeforce “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.” - Othello

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@anjyiswriting whenever i feel any doubt about the power of writing, i re-read this.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

6 months

I’m honored to announce that Altamira Studio will be publishing THE PORTAL by Rob Hardy ( @ungatedlife ). It's pre-orderable here: The Portal will be part memoir, part manifesto—a memoir-festo—that invites us to examine our relationship with the Internet,

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

In any case, there are many ways of communicating things, & metaphor always plays a role. That’s why if you become a master of metaphor, your writing will get stronger. For a paradigm-shifting cognitive adventure, study the classic Metaphors We Live By:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

8 months

My team's 1st real product is live! 🙂 Altamira Manifestos: I'm biased, as the first adopter—but I think this is revolutionary. HUGE thanks @AdamDraper & @BrianGitt for taking leaps of faith as the 2nd & 3rd adopters. Their high standards amped us up!

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 months

BIG NEWS! A groundbreaking new book, ASK ARISTOTLE, will ship in 3 weeks! Kudos to co-authors @AskVishalS and @WEJaworski , & design lead @sam_nightengale . Here's a photo of the demo copies—just a few tweaks needed before we ship! Get it here:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

It took 11 months, but my team made it happen: my book is in print!! 📖 We took one of the roads less traveled within the publishing realm. It was a fun challenge. You can get the story & book from the link below — I hope you enjoy! 🖖

The unexpected virtue of print

actors-rush-54p.craft.me

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

10 months

@SWENGDAD by far the most turned off I’ve ever been on a date, back in college: Me: “what do you do for fun? any hobbies?” Him (with an incredulous look): “Uh, no. I’m a banker.” I ended up with an engineer who writes & plays music, writes stories, & practices a few sports

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

8 months

So surreal to see my name in Shane Parrish’s book. It’s a great read; I recommend it! :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

@sun_girlxo Good prompt. I couldn’t fit my feelings about this into a tweet, so here you go:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

9 months

sex is cool, but have you tried being a poet & receiving this text about one of your poems? 🥹

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

@m2jr If you really mean all time... the Tao Te Ching! * Preparedness: "Plan for the difficult while it is easy." * Inbound marketing: "By placing itself beneath the rivers, the ocean makes them flow into it." * Strategy: "There's no greater disaster than to underestimate the enemy"

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

One of the great secrets of writing is that you don’t need to be a great writer to become a great writer; you just need to become a strong & persistent editor.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

Quick reminder that there’s a framework for making your writing more memorable. ✍️ More detail:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

the wise @dan2hunt inspired me to share a personal story off the cuff because it might help someone. when I was 20, I worked with an exceptional therapist for ~8 months. I'd sought help because some childhood hardship had left me with a persistent feeling of "unloveableness."

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

I'll be forever grateful to the software company @ulyssesapp : they awarded me my 1st victory in any poetry contest, after 15 years of rejection from Ivory Tower "experts." I'm also humbled and flattered to be quoted alongside Confucius in their interpretive blurb.😅thanks, guys!

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 months

“Be Easy To Work With” My small business is enduring a weird growth spurt. Everyone’s job is changing, customers are coming from new places, & things feel chaotic. In the midst of it, I found myself negotiating a 6-figure deal with a major prospect. I’m still unused to the

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

7 months

@fabianstelzer pretty interesting

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

@Aella_Girl Dunning Kruger in full swing right here.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

7 months

🔥📖 The book Amazon burned (a true story): Anyone can print a book using Amazon's self-publishing service. Well, almost anyone. A few months ago, I met one of the only people who’s been barred from publishing a book on Amazon: Jason Levin ( @iamjasonlevin ). Not only did

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@RebeccaMadison_ the solution isn’t to make porn a dealbreaker... men watch porn; that’s a fact of life. the solution is to watch *good* porn, TOGETHER! 💃🕺

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

@LegacyBuilder__ I re-read this poem:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

🔥 Good news! If you want to see the rules of publishing broken & rewritten—you're not alone. You're in good company w/ @dan2hunt , @jenvermet , @p_millerd & me. We're hosting a townhall about it June 22. We'll each speak, then move to dialogue. Join! ➡️

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

1. Write every day. 2. Publish when you have something to say. If you don't do the first, the second is hard—especially if you need to get your message out in a hurry.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

If you’re like me, you don’t own a printer. But you sometimes wish you could print out some of the best online writing & read it peacefully …offline. 🛋️📖 Enter Printernet by Jake Weber ( @onlyfootnotes )! Below are the 5 pieces I picked for my personal edition. 😊 If you’d

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

There's a classic saying that goes "don't compare your insides to other people's outsides." Ditto for comparing your rough drafts to other people's superpolished final drafts. :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

when someone introduces you like this in an email, what’s left to accomplish? 🥹

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

While it’s small compared with the accomplishments of many in my circle this year, I’m feeling proud that Writing Coach LLC has reached the 18-month mark formally incorporated w/ 3 full-timers on payroll. I’m deeply grateful to all who worked with us in ‘22. Happy Yuletide! 🎄🙏

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

17 days

Fun fact: My dad’s latest book is officially out! My team didn’t publish it—a niche chess publisher did—but I did help with it (story below). I’m starting to lose count of how many books include my name in the acknowledgments... 🙈💙📖 This one’s for the chess fanatics :)

Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 months

A few of you know that my father, Alex Fishbein, is a chess grandmaster. ♛ I'm honored to share that he asked for my help when working on his 5th (& most ambitious!) chess book. This my first time helping my dad with a book. He found my writing expertise helpful in tackling

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

i call myself a writer, but I can’t even put my excitement into words. i feel surrounded by more talent & promise than i ever thought could exist. i really believe a new cultural golden age is at its dawn! :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

🎨📚🧩 MATERIAL comes from research, conversation, imagination & your environment. It includes: * definitions * descriptions * stories * arguments * data * examples Think: “What might get my readers to feel, think, do, or understand what I intend?” Gather now; judge later.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

7 months

“don’t judge a book by its cover” is bullshit—it’s impossible. that’s why my team is working hard to become exceptional at cover design this week, 3 people called our covers “fun,” “spunky,” & “different”—so i think we’re on the right track :) h/t design lead: @sam_nightengale

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

🥋 ELEGANCE is the ultimate polish that makes hard work look easy. Writers reach elegance the way martial artists reach the black belt. “Beauty walks a razor’s edge; someday I’ll make it mine,” wrote Bob Dylan. Elegance is the beauty we’re working to make ours!

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 months

We announced The New Book Deal last month. Amazing pitches keep pouring in! 🌊 We don't have enough resources to support all of the great ideas!! So, we've applied for the @osventuresllc fellowship. This is our video pitch. h/t @sam_nightengale for editing & music 🎶

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

10 months

@sanjazakovska I’m surprised nobody has chimed in about how equity/stock compensation could completely change how this sort of game is played

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

@paulg maybe they’re reading Zero to One:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

9 months

A wise friend once told me, "If you're laughing, you're winning." Today I applied this idea. I met someone who's been writing 5,000 words a week for 3 years. This person said with 100% confidence: "I have the writing process down. I've figured it out." I laughed aloud. Then

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

🚀 OBJECTIVE is what you want your reader to feel, think, do, or understand. Maybe you want readers to learn something, buy something, believe something, or laugh. Or maybe your objective is to quench your curiosity—to understand a topic better. That quest is no less worthy.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

7 months

something amazing just happened i was feeling down in the dumps. then i picked up a copy of my poetry book, which is really just an anthology of moments of lucidity i was hoping to save up for non-lucid times, and i read a few of the poems, and one of them made me feel better.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 months

one day I’ll post a “how it’s made” video that shows the steps of book printing. for now, here’s a photo I grabbed today, as our latest book was coming off the press 🔥 see the sliver of white on the right? that’s *the final cut* about to be made with the paper-cutting machine!

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

10 months

Friends, I just delivered my first serious “get out there & do the thing” pep talk. Couldn’t have done it without all the motivational clichés I got from this app: * You miss 100% of shots you don’t take * “I don’t have enough money yet” isn’t a valid excuse. Do it with what

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

Last night in Austin, Bob Dylan, age 80, performed beautifully for 1 hour and 40 minutes straight. For my part, I spent most of that time on the verge of tears. I fought hardest when he sang (so nonchalantly!)—"I've already outlived my life by far." What a master.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

♟ PLAN means “think a few moves ahead.” Plan to cover all the essential points, and only the essential points. Plan loosely! Bullets & sketches are more useful than meticulous outlines.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

11 months

Over the years, around 50% of people who’ve approached me for writing coaching have been looking for something that doesn’t exist: a shortcut to excellence in writing. It isn’t always obvious when I first meet them, but it becomes clear over time; “this person is looking for a

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

🔥 CONCEPT is the burning question, experience, or intuition that gets you going in the first place. You want to understand it more deeply. When you talk about it, you learn new things that you didn’t recognize before. Ideally, it’s a “mindworm” that won’t leave you alone.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

7 months

feeling grateful to @0xFoster today for making space for me give what was, I think, my best presentation in years! they brought together a wonderful group of attendees who asked the most thoughtful questions 🤩 💻 slides for anyone who’s curious:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

9 months

It was so gratifying, exhilarating, humbling to hear an episode of @heydannymiranda 's podcast last week open up w/ discussion of a book my company recently published. We're so new, we don't even have a logo yet—we printed a coffee ring around our name. :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

If you were born with a gift & you’re spending your lifetime figuring out how to give that gift to the world as fully as possible, then you’re doing fine.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 months

A few of you know that my father, Alex Fishbein, is a chess grandmaster. ♛ I'm honored to share that he asked for my help when working on his 5th (& most ambitious!) chess book. This my first time helping my dad with a book. He found my writing expertise helpful in tackling

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

I have to admit: my ego swooned when I saw this subject line from @0xFoster in my inbox. 🙏😂 Sign up for Foster Season 3 if you want to see me bring my A-game to a group setting. My promise to you is that if you pay attention, the ROI will be **obvious** to you & your readers.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

**This is the future.** I don't have a business card; instead, I have an 80-page book (). Both in person & online, I gift my book to someone new almost every day. If they read it, they get to know me—but even if they never open it, they remember me. :)

Spacefaring: A Contribution To Earth's Archives — Altamira Studio

Spacefaring is Altamira’s first analog publication: 77 pages of short aphorisms & verses. Here’s a little backstory. Please note: Pricing includes the digital edition. You’ll get a follow-up email...

www.altamira.studio

Paul Millerd

@p_millerd

1 year

Austin you have been good to me. Time to leave dozens of free books around the city

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

If writers treated lines of text the way programmers treat lines of code, we’d be living in a different world.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

When people see me write/edit in real time, they often say, “it’s so easy for you!” 😂 Nothing. Worth. Doing. Is. Easy. These ~40 Moleskines are from my last 10 years—thousands of pages of *rough* drafts. Hardly a paragraph in any of these resembles what I’ve chosen to publish.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

I’m cracking up because my co-founder, a professor of logic, met GPT-3 today. 5 minutes in, he had it saying: “I apologize, you are correct that the argument form I described earlier is the fallacy of affirming the consequent. I apologize for any confusion caused by my mistake.”

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

19 days

A friend asked me about Austin, and this is what I said:

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@JohnDryden85 @RalienBekkers @lexfridman absolutes are for babies. Frankenstein is genuinely brilliant. :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

2 years

Today, I feel deeply honored because I got an email containing—hands down—the best compliment of my life: "Several years later, I am still thinking about what you wrote and its relevancy." The sender kindly permitted me to screenshot the email & share it with you anonymously.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

Over 15 years, I've entered many poetry contests run by "literary experts." I never won. Today, I won my first poetry prize—in a contest run NOT by a legacy literary publication, but by a software company. Don't let the dinosaurs fool you. They're going extinct. More soon. ;)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

In fact, language *is* metaphor. We CONSTANTLY use one thing to represent another thing. Example 1: Up = Good; Down = Bad. - Moving "up" in the world - Feeling "low" - "High" standards - It's "downhill" from here - "Upstanding" citizens - "Stooping" to his level is "beneath" me

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

someone said 'celebrate your wins, even if it feels like bragging,' so here's a win from tonight: a biz partner told me, "your kindness is so genuine!!"

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

A friend categorized my genre of writing as “optimistic reflective poetry” and that was a great way to end the week 🌞

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

6 months

thankful for everyone here, especially all who spontaneously sent photos of my book! ♥️

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

😎 STYLE comes from mastering fundamentals! Writers often get feedback on style (tone, voice, word choice, etc) but that's rarely helpful—because beneath most stylistic problems, there’s a fundamental skill that needs strengthening. Style comes *after* you work through COMPO.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

It seems that the best people in the world aren’t as afraid of failure as of regret.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

(from 2019) For everyone who’s feeling it now.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

Today my team redesigned my workstation to promote my sanity 😊 I still need a bit more cable management, but here’s the before & after. The Apple studio display isn’t cheap, but it eliminated my external webcam & monitors. It has an onboard mic too, but I prefer my SM7B :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 months

someone called me “a builder of paragraphs” a few days ago, and i’m still smiling about it 🙂 a small creative compliment can have just as much impact as a big & profound one

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

4 years

If there's 1 rule that applies to all writing, it's this: Cover all the essential points, and only the essential points, with as few words as possible.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

@Phiashima @InternetH0F @dj_paulie_p yes it is

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

if you’re wondering if @m_ashcroft really is as thoughtful & sincere as his web presence makes him seem, the answer is yes. follow him; he’ll enrich your mind. 🧠

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

🏛 ORGANIZATION is the order in which you arrange your material, a.k.a. “structure.” A story is ordered in time. A how-to guide gives you a series of steps to follow. Persuasive or argumentative pieces are ordered logically: some ideas provide support/evidence for others.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

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New short post: "Readers are underserved by the publishing industry." For years, I blamed myself for lacking the discipline to read new books. Later, I realized it wasn't *me* who'd gotten worse—it was the publishing industry. More on this topic soon.

Readers are underserved by the publishing industry.

notes.ellenrhymes.com

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

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At first, digital media (and “screen time” generally) was a source of escape from everyday reality. But now, for a growing group of people, screen time *IS* everyday reality. The pattern is reversing. People now seek real-world entertainment to escape the digital world.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

3 years

- 3 steps to mastery of a craft: Step 1: Take the rules. Step 2: Break the rules. Step 3: Make the rules. Learn from the old masters -- but once you have, decide how things should be done in the future, and lead by example. All leaders start out as impostors.

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

26 days

Earlier this week, @will_mannon sent me this poem that he wrote spontaneously. It made me smile, and I think you might like it too. :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

30 days

(10) Finally, short books are often better for both authors & readers. If it can be said in 100 pages instead of 300, why not do it? The best & brightest readers appreciate it when their time is valued. h/t @p_millerd for the thread idea. more on all these topics soon. :)

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Ellen Fishbein

@EllenRhymes

1 year

All “gurus” who denounce fiction should be shamed, loudly & publicly. Great fiction is a flight simulator for your brain: it helps you practice responding to challenging & extreme situations. Thinking about fictional characters makes *your* character stronger in real life.

Anirudh

@VirtualAnirudh

1 year

@JoshuaLisec Honestly, I learned more from fiction than non-fiction Even though the gurus say not to read fiction, a lesson makes a bigger impact when it's wrapped in a story

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