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Jun 29
I retyped a whole McCarthy novel to become a great writer. (It didn't work.)
Jun 22
what Wall-E does for a living
Jun 15
Look for where things are the same, look for where they're different
Jun 09
Write better sentences without feeling inspired
Jun 09
This Connected State: An Interview with Paul Millerd - Writer Science
Jun 05
The Goon Squad - Daniel Kolitz (2025)
Jun 02
Write something only you could have written
May 28
Sentence Patterns for Writers
May 27
What am I actually writing about? (how to know for sure)
May 22
Revealing a New Yorker Writer's Personal Essay Strategy
May 15
Stop trying to find your writing voice (do this instead)
May 11
Writing Advice I've Changed My Mind About (After Teaching It For 10 Years)
May 06
give up DISCIPLINE, you'll write freely
Apr 26
I learned a system for writing effortlessly
Apr 23
What the Best Science Writers Know That Most Experts Don't
Apr 02
The 5 Writing Skills A.I. Will Never Replace
Mar 22
The Grammar of Experience: M.A.K. Halliday's Writing System for Carving a Figure from the Flow of Change
Mar 21
The Senses Were Never Separate: David Abram on Perception, Presence, and the Art of Description
Mar 21
The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
Mar 19
Put Your Ideas Where Readers Expect Them
Mar 19
"Weirdly Plausible:" Adam Gopnik on Why The Matrix Still Lives in Our Heads
Mar 19
The Unreal Thing - Adam Gopnik (2003)
Mar 18
Tollbooth Syndrome: George Gopen on Communication and the Real Purpose of Writing
Mar 17
Swing and a Miss: George Gopen Explains Why Your Ideas Don't Land
Mar 16
The Coffee Stain Problem: Why You Can't Read Your Own Writing
Mar 14
Write in Fractals
Mar 14
The Big Picture: Give Readers the Map Before the Terrain
Mar 14
Problems that Make Readers Care
Mar 14
Emphasis: Save the Best for Last
Mar 14
Coherence: Make Your Sentences Add Up to Something
Mar 14
Flow: Connect Your Sentences with Old-Before-New
Mar 13
Zombie Nouns: Know When to Break the Rule
Mar 13
Put the Action in the Verb
Mar 13
Spotlight Your Main Characters
Mar 10
Introduction to Functional Grammar - M.A.K. Halliday
Mar 10
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities - Stanley Fish
Mar 09
Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective - George D. Gopen
Mar 09
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace - Joseph M. Williams
Feb 23
The Top 1% of Experts Think on Paper—Here's How
Feb 20
He emailed me with a writing problem... then solved it himself
Feb 15
The EM Dash Panic—Explained!
Feb 09
Writing that Works: Longer Sentences, the Passive Voice, and Two Dangers of Mindless Writing Rules
Feb 01
Strategic Repetition: Improve the Clarity of Your Writing by Repeating Key Terms (without sounding repetitive)
Jan 29
How Modern Schools Make Terrible Writers (deliberately)
Jan 25
Autistic Writing: 3 Writing Exercises to Connect with Readers (and how 'Write the Way You Speak' misses the point)
Jan 19
How to Articulate Your Thoughts More Clearly than 99% of Writers
Jan 12
I Analysed 100 Opening Paragraphs. Here's What Makes Readers Obsessed.
Jan 05
9 Techniques for Clearer Writing (I Wish I Knew Sooner)
Nov 11
How to write so well readers stop scrolling
Oct 26
I wish I knew this before I started writing online