the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
Brie Wolfson and
the art of writing
You’re either writing or editing. Doing both at the same time makes both worse.
”In my experience, here’s how essays form: You get all these bits of data that stick in your head… file drawers in your head. At a certain point you realize one of the drawers is now full, and you might have an essay.” Tim Kreider on the artist at midlife.
“[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
