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paulgraham.com
Some of our best essays come from people who don ’t consider themselves writers: Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect, Carl Sagan an astronomer, John Muir an environmentalist. Writing wasn’t their main income, and they didn’t write to be writerly; they wrote to make sense of their mind, their culture, and their role in it. What makes the essay the ul... See more
Michael Deansubstack.comI’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of na... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
I believe an essay is the most flexible written medium, and it calls for a fusion of genres: the soul of a memoirist, the pen of a poet, and the rigor of an academic. By learning to shape a thesis, your essays will become more than gripping stories with beautiful sentences, they will help you and your reader make sense of the world.
Michael Dean • THESIS
Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. p. 336.
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius
AI can and will ruin your voice and credibility if you lazily let it write in your place. As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.
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