I talked to a friend who wants to start a blog and wanted some advice on that—how to find her voice and so on. A few random thoughts:

1. It is the stuff about you that is odd that is interesting. So, don’t think to much about how you are supposed to do it, or what the genre convetions are. Just try to amuse yourself.


2. Another way to phrase it: the best

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Julie advises not to write for your audience, write for you and find the angle that works for you.

The people you will be able to have deep conversations with have, like you, already been surprised by the simple, clear things. They need more to get high. And this “more” will be wildly idiosyncratic. It cannot be summarized in a list of writing rules.

So what do you do?

You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it... See more