Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane: Find a subject you care ab...

Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane: Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to… Show more

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Write the book you need to write. That's been my guiding philosophy. And I think it's the same when it comes to other projects. Too often, we think we need to write to what our audience wants. That's impossible and comes across as cheap &... See more

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The way to get novelty is to write about topics you've thought about a lot. Then you can use yourself as a proxy for the reader in this department too. Anything you notice that surprises you, who've thought about the topic a lot, will probably also surprise a significant number of readers. And here, as with correctness and importance, you can use... See more

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