Writing

Most first drafts can be cut by 50 percent without losing any information or losing the author’s voice.

When people say, "I was writing all day," they don't mean they were intermittently typing for eight straight hours. They mean they spent the entire day engaged in the writing process. And a big part of that process is installing, configuring, and testing software—in other words, learning.

writing wasn’t easy and wasn’t fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

In a 2019 study, 98 professional writers and 87 physicists recorded their most creative idea each day, as well as what they

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I’d say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.

Next the lead must do some real work. It must provide hard details that tell the reader why the piece was written and why he ought to read it.

Writing is not a linear process. We constantly have to jump back and forth between different tasks.

I would argue that the paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing—the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words. If the moment of quickening is to come, it comes at the level of the paragraph.

Develop your topics, questions and research projects bottom up from within the system. See what is there, what is missing and what questions arise. Read more to challenge, strengthen, change and develop your arguments according to the new information you are learning about.