Content tagged with "writing" (6)

If you start with background, people leave before they reach the interesting part, so find the one thing that makes your reader curious and open with that.

Paul Graham's short, opinionated take on what makes writing good, worth re-reading every time you sit down to write a design doc or blog post.

What separates dev posts people finish from ones they abandon: earning the click in the first few lines, then cutting the throat-clearing that makes readers leave.

Willison's method for a link blog worth following: never post a bare URL, always quote the source and add the one sentence of context only you can write.

Write from what's odd about you. Karlsson reframes a blog as a long-running search query that routes the people who share your obsessions to your inbox.

Do-this-not-that writing advice you can apply mid-draft, from breaking up walls of text to leading with the concrete example over the abstract claim.