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Hemingway Editor
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Time is the best editor.
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
#104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
Haley Nahmanhaleynahman.substack.com
The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages
Alberto Romero • You Are Killing Your Greatest Ideas
Grace Lin: She asks, Where do you get your ideas?... See more
Mo Willems: Well, Leah, that's a very good question and I'm afraid you may not like the answer because ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are.
Grace Lin • Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
If you really want to understand a topic, don’t read about it, write about it.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles
The COMPOSE Backstory — Ellen Fishbein
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