Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
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Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
I see hundreds, actually thousands, of online writing courses popping up on the Internet. Nearly all of them involve some cohort based model that trains people on how to write consistently for an online audience (for engagement).
The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
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The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
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Luke Burgis • Why I Write
It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it
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You don’t find clarity by choosing a topic—you find it by chasing the thing that won’t leave you alone.
Topics feel like boxes — tidy, labeled, stackable.
Curiosity feels like a spark — unpredictable, alive, worth following.
I don’t start with “what to write about.”
I start with what’s tugging at me.
A sentence I can’t shake.
A question that hums under