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he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Everyone knows that the way to get good is to be prolific. But it’s incredibly hard to be prolific. For most of us, it means reaching way beyond the output level that feels natural. I keep trying to dig deeper in my writing, which means that I’m always saying the thing I’m most scared of saying at any given moment.
ava.substack.com • On Writing More
“This business of… being a writer is ultimately about asking yourself, ‘How alive am I willing to be?’” —ANNE LAMOTT
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
This is my 5 year story about becoming a far better storyteller.
Goal: Hold the audience's attention as well as Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I started with podcasting. But, every time I spoke, I sounded like a buffoon.
Why?
Julian Shapirox.com
An essay lets the soul of a memoirist, the rigor of a scholar, and the pen of a poet all co-exist on the same page. Out of all the mediums, it's most able to fuse the best parts of every other genre. It's literature's sponge, the frontier of the written word. https://t.co/Olikaqb5pV
Paul Millerd went to MIT and worked for McKinsey before deciding corporate life wasn’t for him. Then he did what one does: moved to Taiwan without a plan and accidentally wrote a cult classic, The Pathless Path.
11 of his best writing lessons:
1. The best marketing tactic will forever be: ... See more
David Perellx.comNovelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman on the source of improvement:
"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
Source: Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers
"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
Source: Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers
3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth
The Best Essay
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