the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
Brie Wolfson and
the art of writing
The trick to writing well is to...
- take long sentences and make them short
- take confusing ideas and make them clear
- take unrelated concepts and make them related
...without losing the main idea in the process.
nametwitter.com“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
If you really want to understand a topic, don’t read about it, write about it. The act of explaining something helps connect the dots and commit them to memory far better than the passive act of reading.
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Excellence is the war you wage until every trace of the struggle disappears
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easy reading is hard writing
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