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Card VIII: Ariadne's Thread

Write with a through-line

Sep 15, 2025
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What if the key to great writing wasn’t speed, or style, or even structure?

What if the magic came from something gentler, quieter…

…like a thread.

Like one true line that’s held loosely but consistently.

It’s the thing you return to, again and again, even when the page feels like a puzzle.

This is the spirit of Card VIII: Ariadne’s Thread.

It’s not the slaye…

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