the art of writing
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the art of writing
Writing gave words permanence. Typewriters reduced the friction between having a thought and transferring it onto a page. Computers reduced the cost of editing thoughts after you typed them. The internet made it possible to send your words anywhere, instantly, for zero cost. And now AI will help you think through ideas more completely as you type... See more
Every • Writing with Machines
If you really want to understand a topic, don’t read about it, write about it. The act of explaining something helps connect the dots and commit them to memory far better than the passive act of reading.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
Ezra Klein on the dangers of using ChatGPT for serious writing and the importance of intellectual labor in the writing process:
... See moreChatGPT will never tell you is that the problem with what you're doing is that it's the wrong thing entirely chat gpt is always going to give you the answer of how do you tweak how do you rewrite how do you do the thing
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know”—a sentence, he added, without “scrollwork or ornament.”
Chekhov: “The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”
Ashley Zhang • Surrender control over your stories
The only thing that matters, to me, is to arrange the writing in such a way that I repeatedly return to ideas again and again . I want to reread and make comments and rearrange my notes, not just type it and move on. The reason for that: I’m not particularly interesting or insightful at any point in time, but if I let five or ten Henriks layer... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Writing in a way that gets your thoughts to flow
Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.
Derek Sivers • On Writing Well - by William Zinsser | Derek Sivers
I’ve spent the last year and a half telling everyone that TikTok saved my career. But that’s not true. What saved my career was writing a great fucking book.