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Before you write anything, ask yourself the 3 following questions.
Why do you write?
When you write a document there is always a selfish reason. You want to get something from your audience. Share some information, ask them to do something (subscribe, buy). Start with Why.
Who is your audience?
You need to know who you are writing for, the
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Brevidade inteligente: O poder de dizer muito com poucas palavras by Mike Allen
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Writing fiction often contains an element of self-hypnosis, of flying in the dark.
Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Writing is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E.L. Doctorow
Tom White • How to Write Anything
You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate
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As Lisa Jewell, author of some eighteen bestselling novels, put it, “Pace yourself. If you write too much, too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount.”