The 1% Rule: A Poet’s Take on Atomic Habits

and five takeaways you can use in your writing life

Dear Friends,

Standing at a bus stop on a January morning, freshly fallen snow blanketing the park, I began listening to James Clear’s Atomic Habits—and almost immediately stopped.

What I didn’t know is that Atomic Habits opens with a story about baseball that turns unexpectedly gruesome.

Now, my interest in baseball is limited, and my tolerance for gore i…