the art of writing

advice from writers, and more on writing

Writing advice from Lenny Rachitsky:

If you want to have an existential breakdown, try to make each sentence an aesthetic masterpiece. Ditch the poetry and focus on clarity instead.

“Every time I think about how to write beautifully, I just get stuck and it just slows everything down.”

alex

GPT4's writing is better than 90% of people, but it's way worse than the top 1% of writers. h/t Nat Eliason

sari

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.

rob hardy

Writing In Public, Inside Your Company

Kool-Aid Factory koolaidfactory.com

Brie Wolfson

the virtues of the boring draft

Brandon blgtylr.substack.com

alex

If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying

Sasha Chapin sashachapin.substack.com

Brian Sholis

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser • 28 highlights

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sari

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Creating a collection of my favorite writing is so satisfying. It's like saving links, but I'm saving the objects themselves. There's some physicality to it, more like a bookshelf of sorts. Crazy to think how this could evolve (1/x)

Rafael

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Walker Rockets

Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:

To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last

Alara