the art of writing
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the art of writing
It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it
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Here’s the thing when you hang out with writers: We pay attention. We write things down. Much of what I write about are my observations. I always say I don’t have to make things up. I just need to pay attention.
Anne Gudger Tells Us
How to Write – A memo drafted by David Ogilvy on September 7, 1982, for the management to circulate as they saw fit.
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.
Hot take: Everyone's missing the big picture on AI writing.
I've glimpsed the future of what's really going to happen:
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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
-Anne Lammott
I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages