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When André writes an SOS, he starts with a “Draft Zero” which is free writing to get thoughts out of his head and onto the page.
As ideas coalesce, André writes an Anne Lamott-inspired “shitty first draft,” which inspires additional rounds of increasingly focused, organized, polished writing.
Sub-plots, stories within stories, relevant tangents, et... See more
As ideas coalesce, André writes an Anne Lamott-inspired “shitty first draft,” which inspires additional rounds of increasingly focused, organized, polished writing.
Sub-plots, stories within stories, relevant tangents, et... See more
How, then, to proceed? Skipping over, for the moment, the first draft, assuming some existing text to work with, my method is this: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with a P on this side (“Positive”) and an N on that side (“Negative”). I try to read what I’ve written the way a first-time reader might (“without hope and without despair”). W
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- Robert, who looks at ~1,000 pieces of writing a day, has discovered that the best predictor for the quality of a writing piece is the writer
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style and how it obstructs what they are trying to say. If you give me an eight-page article and I tell you to cut it to four pages, you’ll howl and say it can’t be done. Then you’ll go home and do it, and it will be much better. After t
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
You Are a Writer
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