Content tagged with "writing" (6)
All content across blogs, linklog, and books with this tag.
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- by gwern
If you start with background, people leave before they reach the interesting part, so find the one thing that makes your reader curious and open with that.
- by Paul Graham
Paul Graham's short, opinionated take on what makes writing good, worth re-reading every time you sit down to write a design doc or blog post.
- by Michael Lynch
What separates dev posts people finish from ones they abandon: earning the click in the first few lines, then cutting the throat-clearing that makes readers leave.
- by Simon Willison
Willison's method for a link blog worth following: never post a bare URL, always quote the source and add the one sentence of context only you can write.
- by Henrik Karlsson
Write from what's odd about you. Karlsson reframes a blog as a long-running search query that routes the people who share your obsessions to your inbox.
- by Scott Alexander
Do-this-not-that writing advice you can apply mid-draft, from breaking up walls of text to leading with the concrete example over the abstract claim.