On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
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On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
It might feel like a waste, but it works: Write more, so you can edit more. Starting with raw thoughts then slicing down your fluff to the core essentials is how you get to genius.
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
Deleting anything smaller than that is about a mix of editing and reader experience design. Throughout the writing process, maintain a separate “cutting room floor” document to paste and preserve all the chapters and sections that you cut from the
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
Focus on the first paragraph. If you are going to change one sentence, change this. Here’s a trick: read the sentence, open another document, and rewrite the sentence, or the sense of the sentence, from memory.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
Therefore think small. Decide what corner of your subject you’re going to bite off, and be content to cover it well and stop.