Belief 09

Craft

A professional is someone who writes whether inspired or not — and who has checklists for the days when taste fails.

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What's in this unit · 14 min read

  1. Write hard, then edit cold
  2. Design the day
  3. My actual pipeline
  4. Borrow the newsroom’s checklists
  5. Checklists for reading someone else’s draft
  6. Exposition, and the ten-thousand-word rule
  7. Go there
  8. The last habit

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Sources

  • James Scott Bell — The Art of War for Writers
  • Melvin Mencher — News Reporting and Writing
  • Roy Peter Clark — Writing Tools
  • Dan Brown — MasterClass — the Three C's
  • Brandon Sanderson — BYU creative writing lectures
  • Molly McCowan — Effective Editing (The Great Courses)
  • Robert McKee — Story
  • Aaron Sorkin — MasterClass
  • R.L. Stine — MasterClass — outlining
  • Tom Hanks — Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend