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When writing, look at what you are trying to describe more than at your wordswww.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/write-about-the-concrete
1177 sats \ 5 comments \ @Scoresby 7 Jul BooksAndArticles
Good writing isn’t about studying how great essays or poems look and then figuring out how to reverse engineer that (though that’s part of it). Rather, it’s about learning how to pay close attention to your thoughts and feelings and the concrete materiality of the world, and mastering the craft so you can translate what you see onto the page.
I really think this is true. Sometimes I forget about it and get distracted with what I think the writing should look like or feel like, but it is so often the case that the most enjoyable writing is that which doesn't do much more than accurately describe the world.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kontext 20h
Reminds me of the time when I wandered over to some subreddit about writing and saw a post about someone worrying about their word count - which was bad enough, but even worse was the fact that none of the replies pointed out the fact that word count does not matter; its not quantity, it's quality that matters.
In fact, I'd say that less is more, if one can relay the same idea in a more concise manner. But hey, we live in the fiat age, where apparently it is about quantity over quality.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 16h
There was a time when my sentences became so emaciated in their pursuit of concision that they were ugly, bony things and indistinguishable - as if a famine had been upon my mind. Not good.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 17h
was just looking at a basics of drawing work book and it gave nearly identical advice for drawing: the artist should look at the scene or object more than the paper
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HighOfLot 4h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 21h
What you write needs to be understandable from the person how read the article, use pure technical terms is not in your favor to let the other person interact, it could be someone how doesn't know anything about Defi swap or first time he heard about the term, so what you write needs to be in simple words without aborting technical part much.
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