Buffer
How to Write a Blog Post: A Full Breakdown of What We Do
9 min read · From 2015 · See the time it takes to write a 2,000-word article on the Buffer blog, how every minute is spent, and how we write blog posts from research to promotion.
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Paul Graham
How to Write Usefully
10 min read · From 2020 · February 2020What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should…
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Guardian US
A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it
4 min read · From 2020 · There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money
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hemingwayapp.com
Hemingway Editor
From 2015
Shared by 599, including Leo Polovets, Karen K. Ho, Kaushik Gopal, Matt Navarra, Alex 🌚, Tomas Laurinavicius, Max Stoiber, Steve Faktor, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, John Cutler, Alex Osterwalder🇨🇭, Chris Heilmann, David Bauer, Alex Tabarrok, Rico Wyder, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, David Perell, Dan Shure, Casey Smith
Entrepreneur
4 Questions to Ask Yourself While Writing a Speech
3 min read · 2020-07-06 · If you know what the audience expects from you, the words will roll off your tongue.
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Seth Godin
The simple cure for writer’s block
2020-06-30 · Write. People with writer’s block don’t have a problem typing. They have a problem living with bad writing, imperfect writing, writing that might expose something that they fear. The be…
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XKCD Comic
Five Word Jargon
2020-06-29 · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
Shared by 40, including Brad Brooks, LoriBeth
Ness Labs
50 lessons learned from writing 50 newsletters
~13 min read · 2020-07-06 · This week marked an important milestone: I just sent the 50th edition of Maker Mind, a newsletter about mindful productivity. Countless hours of careful writing, thoughtful conversations with readers,…
Reader View · Shared by 263, including Gabriele, LoriBeth, Mark Kaigwa, Stephanie A Kowalski, redjotter, Chad Underwood, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Philipp Laurim, Jonathan Kogan, Arne Keuning, IdeaEconomy Newsletter by John Bardos, David Bauer, blinch
Slate
Why You Should Stop Journaling and Start Writing
1 min read · 2020-06-30 · You can't get to the good sentences if you don't write the bad ones first.
Shared by 86, including Charles Duhigg, Mark Armstrong, Stephanie A Kowalski, Merlin Mann, LoriBeth, Katja Evertz
on.substack.com
Announcing the next Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers
5 min read · 2020-06-30 · Today we’re announcing the next generation of the Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers, which features a $100,000 grant for the top recipient and advances of $25,000 each for four other…
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Writer's Digest
10 Walt Whitman Quotes for Writers and About Writing
4 min read · 2020-07-04 · Here are 10 Walt Whitman quotes for writers and about writing from the author of Leaves of Grass. In these quotes, Whitman covers life, death, contradictions, and more.
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Writer's Digest
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 528
1 min read · 2020-06-24 · Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a big blank poem.
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Writer's Digest
10 William Faulkner Quotes for Writers and About Writing
4 min read · 2020-07-06 · Here are 10 William Faulkner quotes for writers and about writing from the author of As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury. In these quotes, Faulkner covers writing, reading,…
Reader View · Shared by 97, including Simon C, Esther Schindler, Rick Powell, LoriBeth, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
Four steps that make writing less overwhelming
3 min read · From 2019 · If writing makes you procrastinate like no other task, you’re not alone.
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writefullapp.com
Writefull | A new way of writing with confidence
2 min read · From 2014 · A new way of writing with confidence
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The Atlantic
The Enemies of Writing
10 min read · From 2020 · A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade.
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