| > Welcome Wasted heading. What website doesn't welcome readers? An offline one. > To write well is to think clearly. No, it's to communicate well. There is beautifully-written nonsense. > If you can think clearly, you can find something worth saying. Meaninglessly asserts a relationship between two ambiguous thresholds. A vague thought not worth saying! > An ideal place to start is thinking through what bothers you most in life. No. That problem is likely too difficult. The correct essay topic is whatever thought won't go away until it's written down. > The best writing is therapy that you publish for the world to learn from. False: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books That's where I stopped reading. I know what Julian's trying to express. My Pubmind-T3 blogs are for publishing early and often, which is a best practice. But without Textmind (or David Allen's GTD), thinking in essays would be a frustratingly overloaded affordance. Good writing, like clear thought, is reliably produced only via sound process. |