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Be as intentional about your pricing as you are with your design process, your GitHub repository, the clothes you wear to that meeting, your Photoshop layers, and every other part of your business. You’ve already proven that you’re worth every penny you believe you are. Now you know how to go out there and ask for it.
Pricing Design — A book by Dan Mall
Dan seamlessly integrates technical terms like GitHub and Photoshop layers into his prose. While technical terminology often creates distance in writing, his approach incorporates these terms as natural elements of the narrative language
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
In the Field Guide, we talk about them as ghosts of unrealized futures — shadows of possibility that haunt the edges of what is.
If you're the type of person who wants to write more, having a practice of tweeting regularly can be a great way of generating essay ideas
. Tweeting spawns a mental process of the type "generate things to tweet" -- it serves as a wick for ideas -- and sometimes these ideas don't fit cleanly into Twitter or are interesting enough that you want to p... See more
. Tweeting spawns a mental process of the type "generate things to tweet" -- it serves as a wick for ideas -- and sometimes these ideas don't fit cleanly into Twitter or are interesting enough that you want to p... See more
Nabeel S. Qureshi
The best writing prompt for when I'm stuck is simply "be more honest".
this description feels so crisp and everything within the parentheses makes the whole thing shine.
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
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Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
gilest.org: Clarity hacks
You looked at me and smiled. I pretended to understand. If I didn’t, I would’ve dropped right then and there. It was worse than making up excuses for every day that had passed without hearing back from you. At least then, I could imagine you cared.