Writing
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Writing
Making space for writing is making space for you.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
Writing is not about getting letters on a page. It’s not about getting done with text. It’s finding a clear and simple expression for what we feel, mean, and want to express
Writing can lead to reflection, reflection can lead to understanding, understanding can lead to happiness.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
What separates writing that is fun, easy to read, even musical, is writing that alternates rhythms—fast vs slow, quick vs descriptive, etc. The more your writing alternates between opposites, the more movement it has, and the more the reader feels like they are being taken on a journey (opposed to hacking their way through a textbook).
ship30for30.com • How to Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate Guide
- Pick a word to examine. As you comb through a management text, a magazine article, or your freewriting, or as you work your way through a business day, you’ll come across words whose definitions seem taken for granted, words that are used as a way to stop thinking rather than start it. These are the words to pay attention to.
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius
Research is formalised curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
6 tips from John Steinbeck on writing:
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
Essays should be linear, that’s what makes it an essay. If you have a mosaic of paragraphs that can be shuffled in any order, that’s not an essay, those are notes, no matter how poetic the prose.
Sequence matters. Our mind works via cause-and-effect. Of course, there’s value to creating tension, by purposely time jumping, or by injecting subtle
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