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The Secret Architecture of Great Essays
Shape, form, structure, genre, the whole—these have a way of clarifying themselves when sentences become clear. Once you can actually see your thoughts and perceptions, It’s surprising how easy it is to arrange them or discover their arrangement. This always comes as a revelation.
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
An essay is not the process of translating a fully-formed idea into words on a page; it is the process of discovering and testing an idea by challenging it with form, syntax, structure.
Rayne Fisher-Quann • Choosing to Walk
Looking back at all the tools and techniques that I've developed over the years as a writer, it occurs to me that most of them are, in one way or another, grappling with two critical mental forces: the power (and weakness) of human memory, and the sometimes overwhelming drive to procrastinate.