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Great Writing Is Invisible
Even if a writer achieves “formal perfection,” every reader walks away with their own unpredictable reaction. Still, composition matters. It is a delivery mechanism, and when it’s done right it becomes invisible. By sculpting ideas with extreme care, they move through the reader’s veins with no confusion and max potency, letting them come to their ... See more
a good story, by definition, has to be smarter than the person who wrote it. Because if it’s less smart, that means the writer wasn’t writing a story but assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Most of the masterpieces I’ve encountered were smarter than their creators, and often more decent and purely good than them, too.
Etgar Keret • So you think you can tell?
Rob Tourtelot and added
And it’s interesting that the writing I tend to think of as “good” is good because it’s mysterious. It tends to happen when I get out of the way—when I let it go a little bit, I surprise myself. I feel most pleased with my language when I don’t understand it completely.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
- “When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything... See more
jsomers.net • More People Should Write
Brian Sholis and added
My goal when writing might be called saltintesta: the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there.
Paul Graham • Write Simply
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
In his 2012 essay, “More people should write,” writer and programmer James Somers described this process as creating a mental bucket for an idea, thereby unleashing a magnetic force between that idea and the world:
... See moreWhen I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a
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Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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