the art of writing
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the art of writing
It’s a nice fact that LLMs are pretty smart and useful now but suck at writing good prose. Suggests writing well really is very hard.
Nabeel S. Qureshi • Tweet
I’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
TextFX
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Rapper Lupe Fiasco teamed up with Google to create TextFX: “AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths”.
What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.
-George Saunders
the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
- Richard Harding Davis
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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"The answer is, that the book is for me. I wrote it for me. I wrote Psychology of Money for me. I wrote all my blog posts for me. I call it selfish writing. An audience of one."
https://tim.blog/2023/11/02/morgan-housel-transcript/
https://tim.blog/2023/11/02/morgan-housel-transcript/