At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...
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Ryan Holiday was a contemporary American author. Ryan Clark Holiday is an American marketer and author. He became known for writing books and marketing them with non-traditional methods. Read more on Wikipedia →