the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
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the art of writing
Ensō—write now, edit later.
enso.sonnet.io
The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and
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The COMPOSE Backstory — Ellen Fishbein
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Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
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Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination
youtube.comBeing a writer is the best way I know how to get paid for being insane.”
Anne Lamott, on using writing to open a door:
"There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way."
"There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way."
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.