Behavioral Scientist
Writing Resources
4 min · · We've compiled our favorite writing resources on topics like the mechanics of writing, pitching and writing op-eds, incorporating narratives, the ins and outs of book publishing, and the craft of… · Shared by 331, including Katja Evertz, Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
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Be a Writer or Don't Be One
8 min · · the only person you hurt by ironizing your profession is you · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
Why Write? - The Paris Review
13+ min · · “I’ve been collecting these theories of why writers write because so many writers have written about it.” · Shared by 3138, including Larry Ferlazzo, Esther Schindler, Rick Powell, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Katja Evertz, Colin Wright
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writing one sentence per line
1 min · · 2022-06-20 My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else. New sentence? Hit [Enter]. New… · Shared by 356, including Rick Powell, Leo Polovets, Derek Sivers, hiten.eth
Tablet Magazine
The Sunny Side of American Life
10 min · · Why our greatest writers found their inspiration in misery and failure · Shared by 806, including Rick Powell
Five Books
How to Write
14+ min · · The journalist and editor Eric Olsen takes us inside the writing process and reveals who gives the best advice for aspiring authors · Shared by 64, including Rick Powell, Katja Evertz
Writer's Digest
How To Write Killer Characters
5 min · · Developing characters as fully formed, three-dimensional people requires patience, observation, and knowing what to put on the page and what to keep off. Here, author Marnie Riches shares how to write… · Shared by 62, including Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌
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Pity Writing Studies, the Field That Hates Itself
20+ min · · In 2009 I found myself in my late 20s, broke, and trying to get a job in the teeth of the post-financial crisis employment depression. I had applied to hundreds of positions, entry-level and low… · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell, Steven Pinker
Reedsy
How to Plan a Novel: From Idea to First Draft in 7 Tips
10 min · · Have an exciting book idea that you want to work on? Hold your horses and discover how to plan a novel before jumping into the actual writing! · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Quillette
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
20+ min · · “The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
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Joanna Kavenna - Have You Considered Accountancy?
· For People Who Devour Books Subscribe Today! Sign In Register Help Friday 3rd December, 2021 · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell, Tom Vanderbilt
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If You Want to Make It As a Writer, For God's Sakes, Be Weird
13+ min · · you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell, Michael Robinson, Derek Lowe
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It Could Be So Much Better Than This
9 min · · you get what you allow · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Literary Hub
A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
9 min · · “If creativity is about power to create something from nothing, then believing in impossible things is its most critical component.” –Oli Mould, Against Creativity * I’ll invite you to read this sl… · Shared by 217, including Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski
The New Yorker
The Most Ambitious Diary in History
7 min · · Claude Fredericks, a Bennington classics professor, knew Anaïs Nin and James Merrill, and taught Donna Tartt. He kept a diary for eight decades, and persuaded many in his orbit that he was writing a… · Shared by 40, including BenYT, Steve Silberman, Rick Powell, Kyle Chayka
The New Republic
The Afterlives of E.M. Forster
16+ min · · For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, “Maurice.” Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear. · Shared by 91, including Rick Powell, Jane