Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
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Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
for a fiction writer the question of where things come from is, in my experience, a bit mysterious.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
This is why it is so important to figure out the big question you’re trying to answer. Putting yourself in situations that feed your mind what it’s hungry for lets you outwork everyone else without even realizing you’re working. You’re just trying to answer your question!
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
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
my writing life is not particularly discrete from the rest of my life. In part because the more I’m with it, the more it’s just holding the questions that I have, period.
Loré Yessuff • Poet and professor Ross Gay on abandoning capitalistic achievement to seek the freedom of play – The Creative Independent
She asks questions, investigates, and learns. Repeat that process. Forever. There are no final answers, no final state of “knowing” what works—only the constant honing of your intuition to consider details around you as they change.