Why You Should Write Pseudonymously - David Perell

Hi, I'm David Perell.

I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.

How I Choose What To Read - David Perell

David shares how he chooses what to read and how to build a reading habit. Read here.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make

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The social contract of writing | jola.dev

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

On Writing (or not): Part One

Bad habits and why the voice in my head needs to kindly shut up

50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell

David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.

The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper

I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...

David Whyte on Courage as a Measure of Our Heartfelt Participation with Life

David is a a true elder, with a gift for weaving together our inner and outer worlds in what he calls ‘the conversational nature of…

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.

I write prose, not poetry, but the most helpful piece of advice I’ve ever read was written by a poet: Robert Frost, who was born 147 years ago today. In the second, expanded edition of his Co…

Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.

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Geoffrey Litt

Here’s a very incomplete list of people whose work I’ve found inspirational. If your taste is similar to mine, maybe you’ll get some inspiration from their work too.