Writing
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Writing
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
"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
This quiet looking and thinking is the imagination; it is letting in ideas.
Brenda Ueland • If You Want to Write
Turns out, great writing is simple—if you do these 6 things every day:
1. Take long walks For each of these legends, daily walks were the staple of their creative process. • Thinking • Listening • Outlining • Observing 95% of their writing happened during long walks. By the time they sat down to type, they knew exactly what to say.
2. Capture
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1. Write to Make Sense of Things
You don’t need to start with a point. You just need to start.
This is private writing. Messy, nonlinear, uncool. It’s the kind of writing that happens in the margins of your notebook, in half-sentences, in half-truths you’re still working through.
But this is where your best thinking gets born. This is where vague... See more
You don’t need to start with a point. You just need to start.
This is private writing. Messy, nonlinear, uncool. It’s the kind of writing that happens in the margins of your notebook, in half-sentences, in half-truths you’re still working through.
But this is where your best thinking gets born. This is where vague... See more
Silvia Oviedo L ópez • How to Start Writing
I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
There’s definitely a place for stream of consciousness. My sense is that the more analytical, slow, and entrenched my editing process for long form is, the better my one-take typewriter essays are. There’s a world in which the patterns of the craft become automatic, and over 50% of what you make is ready to go. I think it’s extremely rare to start
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