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On Writing Badly Every Morning
Three pages before breakfast, and permission to make them terrible.
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Essays
How I Outline Without Killing the Story
Index cards, a corkboard and a rule: the outline is allowed to change.
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Revising: The Three-Pass Method I Actually Use
Big picture, then paragraphs, then every single word.
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Book Clubs
Why Typewriters Are Having a Moment
Writers are rediscovering the clack of the keys.
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Finding Your Voice by Copying Others (Yes, Really)
The old exercise of typing out sentences you love.
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A Writing Desk That Costs Almost Nothing
A door, two trestles and a lamp — my favorite workspace yet.
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Life
A Writing Desk That Costs Almost Nothing
A door, two trestles and a lamp — my favorite workspace yet.
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