on writing

Sometimes writers sit down and it's all pouring out of them. Each word - exactly the right one - is just sitting there, juicy and bursting with potential, easily within reach on a nearby branch. Every idea flows naturally from the last and in an order which provides a neat crystalline structure to the whole endeavour.

Ian Dunt • How to Write

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Courtney Hohne • The monkey, the tiger beetle and the language of innovation

If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.

But I no longer think that it is quite right. The relationship between... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Writing as Communion

Michael Dean • The Alchemy of the Rewrite

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

— David Foster Wallace

honestly? writing is cardio. > Comfort is comfortable, writing is uncomfortable (mentally and physically) and to write a lot for a long stretch of time is like being the world’s least coordinated endurance athlete.

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