the art of writing
- Excellence is the war you wage until every trace of the struggle disappears
from 💥 Attaining Excellence with Airbnb, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, and more
sari added 14d ago
easy reading is hard writing
Announcing: Writing Examples Today is launch day! We built this website to celebrate great writing. It’s 100% free. Each article deconstructs a piece of writing from an iconic writer. The goal is to give you X-Ray vision into what makes sentences and paragraphs come alive (so that you can improve at your craft). Every example has an analysis of ... See morealex added 1mo ago
- There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own performance... See more
from Art, AI, and the Courage to Create by Hannah Close
sari added 2mo ago
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
Stuart Evans added 2mo ago
Trust the process.
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
-Anne Lammott
alex added 2mo ago
Sentences short, brave, and clear.
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alex added 2mo ago
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) Ka
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sari added 3mo ago
”In my experience, here’s how essays form: You get all these bits of data that stick in your head… file drawers in your head. At a certain point you realize one of the drawers is now full, and you might have an essay.” Tim Kreider on the artist at midlife.
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