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A reader reacts to Endurance — And likes the book quite a bit.
To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insufficient — There’s a lesson in this piece for both aspiring writers and working writers.
CO2 climate sensitivity ‘overestimated’ — Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels than previously thought, a study suggests. Interesting stuff.
We Are the 99.9% — Paul Krugman on income distribution and productivity.
NYT Claims Increasing Bipartisan Support for Plans that Could Raise the Cost of Medicare Policies by $34 Trillion — Mmm, that conservative privatization fetish is really going to pay off this time!
?otd: Ever been to Cleveland?
11/26/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 11.5 (solid sleep plus napping)
Weight: 207.8
Currently (re)reading: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 8:14 am Sat November 26 2011 |
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Bruce Arthurs
November 27th, 2011 at 1:59 amre the expertise article, insofar as writing goes, the advice would seem to be to learn what good writing is, and how it works, in order to become a good writer. Not just casual reading, but deliberative reading, with the aim of understanding how someone else came to write something else well.
I think it may have been Roger Zelazny who, at the start of his career, re-typed a number of Theodore Sturgeon stories to understand how they worked, and to figure out why Sturgeon made the choices he did in writing a particular story. Much like the article’s example of studying classic chess games, trying to predict a grandmaster’s next move and why they would make it.