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Negativity (when applied with rigor) requires more care than positivity
2 min · · Andrew Gelman over at his website: Tyler Cowen writes: Avoid criticizing other public intellectuals. In fact, avoid the negative as much as possible. However pressing a social or economic issue may… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Writer's Digest
10 William Faulkner Quotes for Writers and About Writing
4 min · · 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,… · Shared by 100, including Simon C, Esther Schindler, Rick Powell, LoriBeth, Katja Evertz
Seth Godin
The simple cure for writer’s block
· 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… · Shared by 124, including Neil Hart 💙, Tom Connor, LoriBeth, LARRY ELKAN, Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, Jeff Echols - A/E/C Innovation, Brett Errington, Matt Heinz
Forge
How to Write Anything
4 min · · Rules you can use to write anything you want to write — from a book to a tweet · Shared by 344, including Tauno, Michael Musgrove, Neil Hart 💙, Rick Powell, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz
Locus Magazine
Cory Doctorow: Rules for Writers
6 min · · In 1991, I read two documents from Bruce Sterling that changed the course of my professional and literary career. The first was “The Turkey City Lexicon”, which Sterling co-wrote with L… · Shared by 90, including Harsha Mv, Rick Powell, Tris Hussey, Chris Isak, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Guardian
'I wanted something 100% pornographic and 100% high art': the joy of writing about sex
6 min · · As authors from Chaucer to Hollinghurst have shown, sex reveals our emotions, instincts and morals. The question is not why write about sex, claims author Garth Greenwell, it’s why write about… · Shared by 169, including Oliver Reichenstein, Neil Hart 💙, Rick Powell
Literary Hub
Writing as Code-Switching for the Socially Anxious
4 min · · The weathered floors in the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House announced my arrival more conspicuously than I would like. I could already hear my classmates bantering as I made my way up the sta… · Shared by 27, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
All Love, All Beauty
5 min · · Kay Ryan examines a favorite Philip Larkin poem. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
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Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
1 min · · “The act of trying to tell a story introduces you to what matters to you. It teaches you something that you needed to know.” --Alexander Chee · Shared by 43, including Gianluca Diegoli, Thomas Power, Harsha Mv, Katja Evertz, Rick Powell
Literary Hub
Sure, Plot is Good, But Have You Tried Talking About Story Shape?
5 min · · I have a problem with plot. The problem is not with the craft concept that is “plot.” The problem is with me. Whenever I’ve tried to apply “plot” to my writing process, I can’t get it to do what a … · Shared by 119, including Jochen Burkhard, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙, Rick Powell, Tauno
Paul Graham
How to Write Usefully
10 min · · 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… · Shared by 783, including David Smooke, sircharlsxavier, string 🇦🇺🍗, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Henneke Duistermaat, Rick Powell, Tyler Neylon, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Mark Kaigwa, Tuur Demeester, Matt Mullenweg, Gabriele, LoriBeth, David Perell, Neil Hart 💙, Jack Raines, Frank Hamm, Mathias Böhm, Nir Eyal
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The Art of the Strange Writing Exercise
18+ min · · We need to shake things up in the creative writing classroom. We need to remember that writing is a messy, fractured, intensely personal pursuit that must not be neutered by the institutional needs of… · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
The Enemies of Writing
10 min · · A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade. · Shared by 497, including Stowe Boyd, Ceferino Díaz, Mathew Ingram, Nir Eyal, Making Sense Podcast, Hiroko Tabuchi, Rick Powell, Daniel Gilbert, Jason Stanley, Jeffrey Flier, Lelio Simi, Justin Tiehen, LoriBeth, Paul Graham
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ON STORIES AND THEIR AMBIGUITIES
3 min · · This essay, on John Milton, Phillip Pullman and the ambiguities of stories, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on strikes in France.) It was published on 29 D… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
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On stories and their ambiguities
2 min · · Kenan Malik in Pandaemonium: ‘A poem is not a lecture; a story is not an argument. The way poems and stories work on our minds is not by logic, but by their capacity to enchant, to excite, to move, to… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
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Twinword Writer is a better writing environment for delivering your ideas and thoughts in the most suitable vocabulary.
1 min · · NEW: Get Wordpress Plugin! Tone Analyzer Are y · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell