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”How would you tell your best friend about it?” and oodles of other good nuggets from Matt Haughey.

Andy Moliski is hiking the Appalachian Trail. With the help of his two brothers he's sharing the journey in real time through an amazing website that defies category. Be sure to check out the journal. / via Things to Click

"Reviews of products that mostly do not exist..." as Kevin Fanning puts it, "This is so dumb, But maybe it’s not totally dumb?" (but it's also about just writing, you know, for fun.)

Write music.

"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know." - James Baldwin. This and more ruminations on writing by the late author. / via @voicesandnoises

I had questions how to approach writing alt text for images. The internet had answers.

Sarah Schulman is a playwright , an author, and a queer activist. She is also a professor of creative writing, and once, a number of years ago, she learned that…

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but writing letters can improve your day. ✨

What can one learn from a New York Times obituary writer about living? “[Writing obituaries] does give one a carpe diem sense… One of my colleagues had a man…

1. To know your country and tongue, know another country and its tongue. I began to contemplate what it meant to be American when I lived in South Korea and…

Don’t stop writing, or all progress will be lost! / via Jessica Jones, not that one with a reminder from DJ

Writing solidifies, chat dissolves. Substantial decisions start and end with an exchange of complete thoughts, not one-line-at-a-time jousts. If it's important, critical, or fundamental, write it up, don't chat it down. / via onfocus

D o you want to know how you can save an hour a day or more dealing with your email inbox? It’s pretty simple: Write short emails. Not just shorter , but short…

“If you want to create a great piece of writing, you have to be in total control of the reader’s experience,” said Scott Dikkers, The Onion’s founding editor…

7 days of prompts to inspire writing

Randomly think of a thing. Let it bump around your head a bit. If the bumping gets too loud, start writing the words with the nearest writing device. See how far you get.

I've not heard of this MasterClass before now, but it looks very well put together.

“but” and “therefore”

I don't have kids, but I think there's value in this notion to not give up on The Thing

The research wonders if you refine your personal narrative, can you change your behaviors. I think most definitely, you can. At least enough to believe it. / via NextDraft

A little-bit of hard-won wisdom I’ve managed to borrow* over the years. The first thing to know is that many people confuse the act of writing with a different…

"Writing is rewriting." Communicatrix has unknowingly given me something to read next.

Something I need to work on... (via feaverish)

For the wordsmiths, get crackin

No icing required

Never use a long word where a short one will do. (via crioknight)

Helpful tips. Now if I could only get up earlier... (via signal vs. noise)

Distraction free writing for Mac OSX. Yay! Yay! Yay! I want all my applications to look like this. (via fraying)