the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
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the art of writing
The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and
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100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
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If only people could write like they talk, they’d be better writers.
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
Write in the tone of the body
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
The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise... See more