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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
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amazon.com"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."
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TextFX
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Rapper Lupe Fiasco teamed up with Google to create TextFX: “AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths”.
essay writing is going to get weirder, less professional, more full of bad feelings, less corporate
I wanna write a poem. But I want it to say what you’re thinking. I wanna patch up the holes when your boat starts sinking. I wanna write that ‘one of a kind’ poem, that ‘free your mind’ poem, that ‘I like how you made that rhyme’ poem, that ‘I like that last line’ poem, that ‘Can I hear that one more time? (That is, if you don’t mind.)’ poem. I
... See moreFrom George Saunders, on nuance and embracing complexity:
... See morethe writer doesn't have to have a fixed firm idea, but has to be able to take the reader on a journey to remind her that the world is complicated. From the very beginning, I understood writing to be about some kind of moral or ethical imperative. Absent that, I'm not that interested in it,
If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comIt’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.