Tag: writing
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Writing as Food
Everybody wants to write a fancy steak dinner. It’s true. We want to write that rarest of works; popular with every reader, beloved of (most) critics, well-recognized as the pinnacle of the writing craft. The Great American Novel, the Pulitzer Prize winning work of journalism, etc., etc., etc. Unsurprisingly, most of us are not meant…
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Self Confidence
In order to be a writer, you have to hold two equally powerful and mutually exclusive ideas in your mind simultaneously: I am the greatest writer ever and Everything I write is absolutely riddled with flaws. If you don’t believe the latter, your editing process will be completely ineffective. If you don’t believe the former,…
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