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Writing Is Telepathy: A Reader Receives Only the Details You Choose, So Reading a Lot and Writing a Lot Are the Habits Everything Else Grows From

A Writer Sends a Picture Across Time by Choosing the Few Specific Details That Can Carry It

Specific Details Beat General Ones, and Reading and Writing Are the Two Habits That Build the Skill of Choosing Them

Send the Image: Pick the Details That Let a Distant Reader See What You See

A Small, Plain Toolbox Does More Work Than a Large Vocabulary: The Word That Fits, the Active Voice and Paragraphs That Each Make One Point

The Plain Word, the Active Verb and the One-Point Paragraph Carry a Sentence Further Than a Big Vocabulary Can

A Small, Plain Toolbox Beats a Big Vocabulary: The Word That Fits, the Active Voice and a Strong Verb

Tighten the Sentence: Strike Every Word That Does No Work

Stories Are Found, Not Built: A Strong Situation and Truthful Characters Do More Than a Finished Outline

A Story Behaves Like a Fossil, and the Way to Find It Is to Start With a Situation and Dig Carefully

Stories Are Found, Not Built: Start From a Situation and Let Believable People Decide What Happens

Dig Up the Story: Start From a Situation and Let Characters Decide

Draft With the Door Closed, Revise With the Door Open: Rest the Pages, Then Cut the Second Draft by About a Tenth

A First Draft Is Written for Yourself and Fast, and a Second Draft Is Written for Readers and About a Tenth Shorter

Draft With the Door Closed, Revise With the Door Open, and Cut the Second Draft by About a Tenth

Cut by a Tenth: Trim a Draft Without Losing Its Life

Five Quiet Leaks Drain a Page: Adverbs, Passive Voice, Backstory Dumps, Showy Research and Writing From Fear

Five Habits Weaken a Page Long Before It Fails, and Each One Is a Way of Avoiding a Risk

Five Quiet Leaks Drain a Page Long Before It Fails, and Each One Has a Repair That Takes Only Seconds

Find the Weak Spot: Catch What Quietly Drains a Page

A Routine Finishes Books: A Door, a Daily Word Count You Can Hit and One Trusted First Reader Turn Intent Into a Draft

A Small Daily Word Count, a Door You Can Close and One First Reader Do More Than Inspiration Ever Will

Finished Books Come From a Routine: A Door, a Word Count You Can Hit and One First Reader

Build Your Writing Day: Fix a Door, a Place, a Word Count and a First Reader

Check Your Understanding

Why Specific Details Reach a Reader Better Than General Ones

What to Do With a Finished First Draft

Repairing a Sentence That Leaks

Go Further

The Full Story Behind These Ideas, Part Memoir and Part Working Guide to the Craft

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Most people who want to write never finish, and the reason is rarely talent. It is the belief that good writing arrives by inspiration, that a big vocabulary makes a strong sentence, and that a story must be planned before it can be written.

On Writing — plain tools, daily habits and honest revision turn ideas into finished books

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