Stop Trying to Be a Good Writer
And focus on the principles of good writing instead
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6 min readJan 31, 2021
Most writing advice is self-help in disguise.
Ten minutes online would tell you the task of writing is not to fiddle about with adjectives for ages, but to simply believe a book into being. You can’t blame the internet for this. It started much earlier:
- “Sit down at a…