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on the craft of writing and rewriting.
Amplitude + Astorik's Arpit Choudhury on Proofreading
"I often spot things to change after moving the draft around."
Writing's writing, whether you're publishing in a community, sending out an email newsletter, or building a blog following. For Arpit Choudhury, building the Astorik community, running the Data-led Ac…
Zapier's Deb Tennen on Proofreading
"Read it out loud."
Software automation tool Zapier is one thing few people know they need. They know they want to simplify their work, to turn contacts into customers and data into documents, but they don't know how to …
Jason Crawford on Proofreading
"Read the draft."
What's next? Jason Crawford's writing about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress weaves the story of how things changed and how they could change in the future. From the history of…
Vancouver Tech Journal's Nathan Caddell on Proofreading
"Read through stories twice."
Local newspapers are an endangered species, threatened both by larger national newspapers and declining print subscriptions. Yet email newsletters—in part, thanks to Substack—have been a bright spot a…
Community is what you put into it.
How to start a new community from zero.
An overflowing inbox means something’s working. Chatter. Questions. Complements. Complaints, even, mean people care enough to complain. Better that than passive indifference. You know something’s work…
Matt Gemmell on Proofreading
"Always let the work sit for a while after it’s written."
It’s the best feeling when you’ve finally written the last word, added the final stop, shut the laptop, and walked away. You’ve created something new, turned the blank page into something meaningful. …
People are curious. That's why you should write.
A case for content marketing.
Humanity is insatiably curious. Libraries and bookstores and Google and even dusty old encyclopedias have their magnetic pull because deep down inside, we all have an insatiable desire to learn more. …
Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.
Insurance for your mind.
We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget. Like a hunter/gatherer stashing their prey, the ideas and the links we stumble upon feel valuable, rare, something worth savi…
What you shouldn't write
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
There are some things best left unsaid—something oft-forgotten in a world that moves at light speed. You could publish anything on your site, make the boldest claims and grandest promises. You could t…
How to get unstuck when writing
5 tips to overcome writer's block.
Blinking cursor. Blank page. The tyranny of words that won’t get out of your way. There’s something you want to write, need to publish. There’s something else that’s holding you back. Maybe you’re wr…
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