We have all read countless self-help and advice articles about morning routines. We all know that Bill Gates and Oprah and Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson wake up early and follow regimented schedules like walking self-help books. Not all of us can stomach a 5AM wake up call or a two-hour…
Posts published in “On Writing”
Nobody writes a viral article or an award-winning script or a novel worthy of the Pulitzer on their first try. Like any craft worth pursuit, writing takes practice. Beginning as a writer can be daunting because, typically, you start off by writing garbage. Incoherence plagues your paragraphs and ideas float…
Tim Ferris said it best, I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish… It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found. The “cost-effective therapy” Mr. Ferris mentions isn’t hyperbole — we can act as our own psychologist…
The goal of writing shouldn’t be to make your reader feel bad about having a smaller vocabulary than you. Good writing shouldn’t demand that the reader have a dictionary on hand just to read your sentences. Making the reader feel as if they are unqualified to read your writing is exactly…
If you’re reading this, you’re likely here to improve as a writer. If you’re looking to improve as a writer, it’s likely you write. Maybe you write for a living, maybe just as a hobby. Either way, if you write, it’s likely that you also edit. Editing is necessary for…
Despite the fantastical landscapes and stories they craft, writers are people too. And writers, like non-writers, enjoy when others applaud their intelligence and wit. Writing isn’t done for the compliments, though human vanity takes them into consideration nonetheless. One way to accrue praise as a writer is through language. Language and…