Writing

• Always remember, writing is an iterative process. It is okay to make mistakes and change the first draft.

• Writing is itself an ideation process. You will learn something from writing.

• Free writing is one way to loosen writer’s block. Write freely and fluidly (possibly following a prompt) without stopping and without care for mechanics or structure. This is also a nice way to generate ideas.

• Writing in a grammatically correct way seems trivial but it has an impact on the credibility of the work as well as how the reader understand the work (source: look only at the papers marked as poorly written).

• Consider the Style Sketchbook — Write on a single topic but in different styles to refine your style

Topics §

• Technical Writing Mistakes
• Narrative

Links §

• Reading - study how to write by studying how to read

• The Need to Read by Paul Graham

• The Style Sketchbook

• Write Like You Talk by Paul Graham

• Writing, Briefly by Paul Graham

• Springhole - blog on writing.