the art of writing
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the art of writing
If you revise trying to answer every objection anyone has to your work, you will write something unobjectionable. Nothing is worse than unobjectionable fiction.
Elizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
Everything you have done in your life before you start writing, good habits and bad behavior, is preparation for fiction writing. Those years will save you time.
Elizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
247 You will know that you’re done with something when you can’t imagine making it better. For some writers that’s a state of exhilaration: They’ve done everything they can. This beautiful accomplishment! Nothing can improve it. Others of us arrive at the same place, despondent: This ramshackle thing. I’ve reached the end of my powers. Nothing can
... See moreElizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
DP: Writing now has to be really, really good to stand out. People got really upset last December when I tweeted that AI’s writing is already better than the majority of Write of Passage students would be with a day’s worth of work. It made a lot of people upset, but I think it’s true. AI’s writing is great with a good prompt, which is why people... See more
How we traded beauty for efficiency
a writer is quite simply someone who does not know how to navigate this world without putting pen to paper, someone who is preoccupied with words and sentences and story
the one about ai.
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.
I’ve done many things to earn a living over the decades—from playing the piano to problem-solving in foreign climes—but writing is now my main focus. And the writing draws on all these earlier experiences.
This is the challenge many young writers face. They need to experience life in order to write about it. But that takes time.
This is the challenge many young writers face. They need to experience life in order to write about it. But that takes time.
An Interview With Ted Gioia
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