the why in writing
by Kojo · updated 1mo ago
the why in writing
by Kojo · updated 1mo ago
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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about [italics mine]. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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A writer’s greatest responsibility is to his readers, to keep providing them with the best work that he is capable of turning out.
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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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Making space for writing is making space for you.
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Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
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You cannot write your words without living them. You cannot share your words without writing them.
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