the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
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the art of writing
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.
Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
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
Not just reading a lot, but paying attention to the way the sentences are put together, the clauses are joined, the way the sentences go to make up a paragraph. Exercises as boneheaded as you take a book you really like, you read a page of it three, four times, put it down, and then try to imitate it word for word so that you can feel your own
... See moreThe most important advantage of writing is that it helps us confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.
How to Take Smart Notes Quotes by Sönke Ahrens
But the future is not a self-fulfilling prophecy - 8 billion people on this planet have a voice and that carries far more weight than one person with 8 billion dollars. We just forgot how to exercise it.
Theo Priestley • Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future
GPT4's writing is better than 90% of people, but it's way worse than the top 1% of writers.
h/t Nat Eliason