Posts tagged with Writing
Exaggeration for Grievance
One rhetorical device I'll sometimes use is "exaggeration for effect." It's just another way of employing hyperbole, which is less about the precision of the description, but to create an outsized impression to make…
Site Under Construction
Hey, it's a fresh coat of paint! Every couple of years, I get tired of looking at how this blog looks , and that prompts me to look to refresh the look and feel of the site. The last…
Losing Thinking by Losing Writing
This tweet from Paul Graham a while back gave me the perfect excuse to write about one of my favorite topics, the idea of thinking by writing: Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for…
The Asymmetry of Creation
It takes me, on average, about an hour to write a minute’s worth of blog prose. That is, as most posts here take only 3–4 minutes to read, they correspondingly take about 3–4 hours to write and…
Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet
A year or so ago, I transitioned some of my notetaking to simple pen and paper, on the idea that it's an inherently less distracting medium, and that writing stuff down by hand forces more focus and attention…
Review: If You Want to Write
Off of the glowing recommendation in Wise Guy that this is the book to read if you aspire to be an author, I took a quick read of Brenda Ueland's most famous publication If You Want to Write.…
