Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Paul Graham’s “Writing, Briefly”
I liked Paul Graham’s tips on writing. It reads like a bullet list, which makes it a little choppy, but it succeeds in offering many useful ideas in a form that is compact enough to understand all-at-once. Here are my favorite points:
- write version 1 fast
- rewrite many times
- if you can’t get started, verbally explain your point to a friend
- don’t try to sound impressive
- work in fairly long chunks of time
- use simple words
