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The other thing the very good writers I know do that I don’t is practice. That is they will write explicitly for no audience but in a form they’d want to present to a hypothetical audience for a hypothetical reason.

This allows them all the benefits of practice in other endeavors. They can experiment, get faster, build “muscle memory” etc.

I don’t know why I keep being surprised that the answer to being good at things is working at it.



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