On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
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On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
I've given feedback on over 500 essays in Write of Passage, and I run a daily "Feedback Gym."
After 1:1 breakout rooms, we each share one meta-point on the writing process.
Here's a thread of the writing wisdom we've gathered:
Michael Deanx.comI spent over 1,000 hours learning to write effectively— because college completely failed to teach me.
Here's everything I learned distilled into 11 tweets (that you can start applying today):
Dickie Bush 🚢x.comBuilding the skills.
The best way to learn how to write novels is to write novels. It will be scary. It will be intimidating. It will be difficult.
Just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean that it’s not worth doing; just because it’s difficult, does not mean that you’re bad at it.
So, before you waste time and money taking classes, just know that the... See more
The best way to learn how to write novels is to write novels. It will be scary. It will be intimidating. It will be difficult.
Just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean that it’s not worth doing; just because it’s difficult, does not mean that you’re bad at it.
So, before you waste time and money taking classes, just know that the... See more