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by rzk
62 days ago
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Off topic, but I really like the writing style on your blog. Do you have any advice for improving my own? In an older comment[1], you mentioned the craft of sharpening an idea to a very fine, meaningful, well-written point. Are there any books, or resources you’d recommend for honing that craft? Thanks in advance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44082994 |
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Making a sentence like requires deeply understanding a problem space to the point where these sentences emerge, rather than any "craft" of writing.
So the craft is thinking through a topic, usually by writing about it, and then deleting everything you've written because you arrived at the self evident position, and then writing from the vantage point of that self evident statement.
I feel that writing is a personal craft and you must dig it out of yourself through the practice of it, rather than learn it from others. The usage of AI as a resource makes this much clearer to me. You must be confident in your own writing not because it is following best practices or techniques of others but because it is the best version of your own voice at the time of being written.