Neal Stephenson - Why I Am a Bad Correspondent
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Neal Stephenson - Why I Am a Bad Correspondent
When not knee-deep in one of our editorial seasons, I focus a few hours each day on correspondence. Letter-writing is usually time very well spent and often a hairline away from one’s best writing.
Jonathan Simons, Analog Sea Review
Substack comment on the synergy in fast & slow writing:
... See moreI definitely lean towards the side of editing, restructuring, and rewriting, but I recently started a typewriter practice where I soft-publish a few one-take, one-page essays per week. I've been surprised by the legibility of those drafts. Getting tempted to move into a faster pace, while a