Writing / Storytelling ✍️
The Day You Became A Better Writer
I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a day in class.
Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. The main technique is keeping things simple.... See more
I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a day in class.
Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. The main technique is keeping things simple.... See more
Scott • The Day You Became a Better Writer
you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end.... See more
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end.... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing

The Hero’s Journey
As she lost consciousness of outer things ... her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Farnam Street • Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
“The first draft of anything is shit”
Ernest Hemingway
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Made to Stick SUCCESs Model by The Heath Brothers
Simple (KISS)
Rhyme
Hook
Unexpected
Humour / Fun
Postdictable
Concrete
Interactive
Draw visuals
Sensory language: sounds & metaphors
Contrast
CTA
Credible
Emotional
Feelings
Controversy
Stories
Heroes & Villains
Who is this for?
How my writing style changed over the years

