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Ep. 117: Should I Quit My Job to Become a Writer?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Write for Editing
If you want to get good at writing, so do it at a semi professional level. You have to write for an editor that can reject a piece if it's not good. Only in that type of deliberately practised stretch is your writing going to improve. How did i kick start getting writing? Not with my blog. That came much later. It was writing for the humor magazine at dartmouth and writing for the newspaper at dartmouth. And funny writing turned out to be a fan astic foundation for my later style. I wanted to write a column form. But it was hard. Humor magazines are competitive. They send writers to all the big shows. And if it was not
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