writing
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writing
one ought to be strict about finding that daily hour and protecting it from distractions and interruptions—but that the writing time itself should not have a quality of strictness. Instead, it should feel more like a gift to yourself: an hour in which to tinker, explore, follow things wherever they lead.
Mason Currey • Lynda Barry on Writing Without Thinking
Obstacles to fluent writing
- Any variation on: “I can't say that!”
- “What if people think I'm stupid?”
- “What if people think this is boring?”
- “What if people think I'm ignorant?”
- “What if people think I'm trying to be superior?”
- “What if this isn't good enough?”
- “What if sharing my ideas results in my being scooped?”
- “Is this part of my job?”
- The vague
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
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Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more