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Harry Dry rules for copywriting:
1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.
2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.
3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters.
4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time).
5)
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In the Field Guide, we talk about them as ghosts of unrealized futures — shadows of possibility that haunt the edges of what is.
A publication isn't content. A publication is the exploration
of an idea.
of an idea.
Writing needn’t be a formal enterprise to have this effect. You don’t have to write well . You don’t even have to “write,” exactly — you can just talk onto the page.
James Somers • More People Should Write
“The kind of writing I've found that I do is mostly to clarify my own thinking on something. So I think [writing to] a high-expectation stranger works for that. Our friends love us because they're tolerant of our weirdnesses and all the things that make us meander or not make that much sense. But I think speaking to this high-expectation stranger... See more
Brie Wolfson: Building Great Company Culture, Finding Your Creativity, and Carving Your Own Path
your Tolan understands the deeper context – that you're asking for help with biology homework not just because it’s a hard class, but because your dad is putting a ton of pressure on you to go to medical school, making every bio quiz feel like a referendum on your future.
Quinten Farmer • Introducing Tolan | Tolans.com
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
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... 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... See more