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The first draft is just for you. But for the second and third drafts, you’ll want to begin rereading, refining, and designing an Engaging reader experience.
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
Writing from a place of joy, interest and curiosity will always take you somewhere interesting and unexpected; in a world where every writer is told there are no jobs and there is no money to be made, I want to tell you a different story.
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Music done right captures a resonance between math and language.
Harmony/rhythm is basically a space/time language that is mathematical (an octave is a unit of space, a measure is a unit of time, and it’s all about how you carve and layer within those units). Lyrics are obviously the linguistic half of it. In the most basic songs, a nice poem is
... See moreThoreau was a writer, and a re-writer. Walden went through seven drafts longhand.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said.
Ryan Holiday • These Are 23 Great Rules To Be A Productive Creative
Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
There are a TON of skills you need to get better at to write a good book.
Structure, story-telling, dialogue, description, scene, suspense, explanation, character-building, word choice, energy flow.
If you try to get better at everything at once, you’ll get overwhelmed and not make much progress.
Instead, pick one or two things and focus all of... See more
Structure, story-telling, dialogue, description, scene, suspense, explanation, character-building, word choice, energy flow.
If you try to get better at everything at once, you’ll get overwhelmed and not make much progress.
Instead, pick one or two things and focus all of... See more
On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
I am fascinated with how some stories feel different just cos they are set up in Moscow, or London, or Rome—you can almost feel the sun or the lack of it, the cold, the smell.
These cities act as real characters that breathe life into the pages. From Tokyo’s surreal streets to St. Petersburg’s spectral beauty, swipe to... See more
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