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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
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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
Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time.
Derek Sivers • On Writing Well - by William Zinsser | Derek Sivers
The only thing that matters, to me, is to arrange the writing in such a way that I repeatedly return to ideas again and again . I want to reread and make comments and rearrange my notes, not just type it and move on. The reason for that: I’m not particularly interesting or insightful at any point in time, but if I let five or ten Henriks layer... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Writing in a way that gets your thoughts to flow
Readers don’t have short attention spans—they have short enchantment spans . There’s an infinite amount of content out there, and readers know it. The introduction convinces a reader that their finite time alive is best spent reading this piece in front of them , and not all the other things on the internet.
Celine Nguyen • In Praise of Writing on the Internet
On writing about what you know, via Robert Pirsig (1974 interview):
... See moreWrite about what you know. And he said, if you write about what you know and you do it carefully and sincerely and make sure it's really what you know, that'll be plenty exotic to everybody else in this book. I've really tried to do that, and I've tried to justify what I've done to
"Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25
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