Writing tagged: ‘on writing’
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Dream advice
Writing advice from an oneiric avatar.
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Book review: ‘A System for Writing’ by Bob Doto
How an unconventional approach to note-making can help you capture ideas, think wildly, and write constantly—a zettelkasten primer.
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Book review: ‘Writing Landscape’ by Linda Cracknell
Essays on landscape and writing.
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Unpolished words
There are good reasons why your first draft should be bad.
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Book Review: ‘Writing Tools’ by Roy Peter Clark
An excellent collection of writing advice.
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‘Lesser’ truth v artistic licentiousness
I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.
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My makeshift desks
In which I unwittingly mimic my hero with the aid of an old chopping board.
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Charles Darwin’s book-writing process
Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
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Sitting on a rock with a brew, gazing out to sea
There are important elements of writing that feel like skiving.
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Descent into violins
The best essayists use seemingly trivial, original examples to illustrate recurring themes of personal importance.
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The slippery slope of minor embellishments
Artistic licence in factual writing doesn’t include making stuff up.
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The gaping void between fact and fiction
Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.