"The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To…"

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“The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To resist the urge to self-censor. To not-give-a-shit what anybody thinks. That’s why children are so good at it.” – A Short Lesson in Perspective …

3 Great Essays about Writing

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3 Great Essays about Writing: tetw:

by David Foster Wallace

The Nature o†f the Fun –  “A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it’ll…

Adjectives

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“Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.” – Voltaire “[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.” – Ernest Hemingway “The adject…

explore-blog: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under…

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“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

E. B. White, echoing Tchaikovsky and adding to our running archive of famous advice on writing.