the art of writing

It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say, I was just writing to the wrong people about the wrong things.

It is the stuff about you that is odd that is interesting. So, don’t think to much about how you are supposed to do it, or what the genre convetions are. Just try to amuse yourself.

Another way to phrase it: the best writing tend to be when you surrender to your nature. This is hard to do!

Here is a classic pattern: you try really hard to do

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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.