Tag: writing
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Every so often, I’ll decide to step away from posting online for a while, especially if no one is reading much of what I have to say anyhow. I’ll promise myself only to make reading notes and write down ideas as they come to me. But then, I’ll threaten to no longer do my reflective…
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In an email from Stacked Marketer from October 2022, one of many newsletters I’ve been subscribed to over the past year… Saw this interesting bit about “Zero Drafts,” but the original source is a Twitter thread (yuck). Originally I just did a copy/paste job of the entire section of the email, but here are the…
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Finally got around to parsing my notes from this solid book on writing. Here are the 11 points that I made sure to write down, reshaped and summarized for your reading pleasure. 1. Write short (and prune without mercy) Bernoff’s “write short” advice stings, because I’m allergic to brevity. Still, pruning works; like trimming a…
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“Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe.” — Paako, From Vincent Lowry, Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries Long ago I came across this quote on Twitter and it got me thinking. Whenever I sit down to write something, I usually don’t have much of…
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Incompleteness has been written about extensively in fields such as mathematics and philosophy. Sadly, it isn’t at all frequently discussed when it comes to volumes of complete works. A collection of complete works is supposed to be a group or set of literary, musical, artistic, or academic works created by a single author. Yet, one…
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There’s a dangerous myth that still lingers in how we teach, critique, and canonize writing—particularly essay writing. It’s the idea that language is fixed, finalized, etched in stone. We’re taught in grammar school that the first draft must already point toward the final product. Then, revision is about perfection, not possibility. But the essay was…
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Some time ago, while sifting through some old articles I wrote for the writing advice book I never bothered to finish, I stumbled across this passage that I decided to file away for later: “Write for you first, always. Just focus on getting your thoughts out of your head and onto a tangible medium. You…