the art of writing

Announcing: Writing Examples Today is launch day! We built this website to celebrate great writing. It’s 100% free. Each article deconstructs a piece of writing from an iconic writer. The goal is to give you X-Ray vision into what makes sentences and paragraphs come alive (so that you can improve at your craft). Every example has an analysis of ... See more

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.

Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator. He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion. Here are 10 of his best ideas: 1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something… Show more

Can’t ever get this image out of my head… Great writers write musically. https://t.co/J8wDku8r62

Hot take: Everyone's missing the big picture on AI writing. I've glimpsed the future of what's really going to happen:

Current AI writing tools are a great way to mass produce writing that is intensely mid, and makes you feel dead inside. Can we use AI to help the best writers do better work? I don't know. But let's think about the bottlenecks for good writing.

Read to collect the dots, write to connect them

In good hands There is a feeling I search for: being in good hands. It is the feeling I look to give and the feeling I look to receive. I know I am in good hands when I sense a cohesive point of view expressed with attention to detail. I can feel it almost instantly. In any… Show more

Many people assume they are bad at writing because it is hard. This is like assuming you are bad at weightlifting because the weight is heavy. Writing is useful because it is hard. It's the effort that goes into writing a clear sentence that leads to better thinking.

3/ One thing I do -- aside from Asking Questions as a Service, which on a good, charitable day is like collaborating with your own Columbo -- is Analogies as a Service. Analogies often get discounted because they're not Real Work. I'm going to persuade you they are.