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Legendary Technologist And Essayist Paul Graham On Walking Into Ideas, The Test Of Good Writing, And Becoming A Connoisseur Of Bad Writing - Writing Routines
Writer's block
Not knowing what to write about is more a problem when writing stories, but essay writing is basically thinking out loud.
When writers' block does strike, pacing around or going out for a walk helps.
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Writer's block
Not knowing what to write about is more a problem when writing stories, but essay writing is basically thinking out loud.
When writers' block does strike, pacing around or going out for a walk helps.
Evaluating criteria
The goal of an essay is to surprise the reader. If you write about a topic you understand reasonably well, and you're able to discover things you didn't consciously realize when you started writing, you have something worth saying.
Let your friends read your work. They'll sometimes find significant problems.
Common traits
Great entrepreneurs and great writers have this in common: They notice anomalies that other people skip over.
Advice to aspiring writers
Write. You have to practice to get better. If nothing else, write a journal.
Become a connoisseur of bad writing. When you spot something that seems bad, try to figure out why. Once you become good at finding mistakes, you'll be less likely to make them.
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The 'back shop' doesn't mean a room behind your workplace to take refuge. It is not a type of selfish, introverted withdrawal from family life, but the need to protect yourself from the pain that would come if you lost that family. It is a place to mend a broken heart, not by avoiding future pain, but by coming into a different relationship with it.
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Translation And Interpretation
They require an ability to be able to understand two or more languages and accurately express the content and information in the other language.
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Source Language and Target Language
- Source Language: is the original message or content
- Target Language: is the resulting outcome after the translation or the interpretation.
Translation and interpretation work well if it is the native language of the translators and it is essential to recognize the cultures of both the source and target languages, in order to fully adopt the content.
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While both translation and interpretation have the same purpose: making the information or content accessible in another language, there is one major difference.
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Writing in 2020
Due to a large number of distractions and obligations nowadays, it is increasingly hard to focus on creative writing.
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The Five Minute Writing Session
Just find five minutes and start doing your work, with complete concentration. Write for five minutes with seriousness and focus. You would need to tell yourself that if you don't write for five minutes and wait for the ideal three hours of free time, along with coffee, you may never get any writing done.
It may be painful to come out of these creative five minutes and get back to regular work, so set your expectations right from the beginning: Five minutes is all you have got.