Sublime

Perfection < preFICTION

I write like the 12 dollar desk salad, the bar that packs 20 grams of protein and plastic into one 200-calorie brick. But good writing, like a good meal, needs fat. It should indulge readers, is meant to be chewed and enjoyed, affording a generous escape from the prosaic and mundane.

Jasmine Sun • 🌻 Audience of One

I got the essay book “The Crack Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald this week, but didn’t realize until yesterday that there are only 8 essays and it’s 75% logs that were too weird or random to make it into his published work.

Inspired by how Festing Jones organized Samuel Butler’s notebook, he did the same thing by organizing how own fragments under alphabe

The word “essay” has a brilliant etymological journey. It is derived from essayer in French, meaning ‘to endeavour’ or ‘to attempt’ or ‘to do one’s utmost.’ An essay, in other words, is a humble, tentative effort. When we write essays we are simply trying to explain our thoughts, trying to share our feelings, trying to connect with others.

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

Brian Dillon

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Cover of Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

emogenus — a piece of writing plagued with emojis.

a digital commonplace book for the modern Internet

say big things with small words

Clear topic sentences > insane paragraphs.