the art of writing
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the art of writing
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
"When I'm writing a first draft, I'm just putting sand into a bucket, so I can build the sandcastle later."
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know”—a sentence, he added, without “scrollwork or ornament.”
WorkforceGPS - Plain Language Webcast Series
workforcegps.org“[Writers] are the fastest designers in the world. They’re amazing at boiling down incredibly abstract concepts into tiny packets of cognition, or language.”
Matt Felten • Words as Material
The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise... See more
