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The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work
the most productive and successful among them generally made writing a smaller part of their daily routine than the others, so that it was much more feasible to keep going with it day after day. They cultivated the patience to tolerate the fact that they probably wouldn’t be producing very much on any individual day, with the result that they produ
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“A friend challenged Dr. Suess to write a children’s book using only 50 unique words. His answer to that test would become the best selling book of his prolific career, Green Eggs and Ham.
Constraints can force us to be more creative by pushing us to do more with less.”
-from Non Obvious Thinking by Rohit Bhargava and Ben DuPont.
If the “sweet spot” of an online article is 800 to 1,200 words, then your job as a writer is to pack as much value into your Main Points as possible—without inflating the piece’s word count.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
After twenty-five minutes everyone returned to the table. Some of them had produced pages of script, despite an instruction to write no more than two hundred words each. Aspiring writers often seemed contemptuous of word counts, perhaps feeling that no limit should be placed on creativity. But shape and rigour are important too. Letting it all ‘flo
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