My Favorite Writing Tip

If you’ve read a list of writing tips, you’ve heard the advice to read your work out loud. The idea is that you’re likely better at speaking

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The New Science of “Grit”

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Sources: The Comfort Crisis

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10 Rules for Writing

I couldn’t fall asleep a couple nights ago, so I laid in bed watching YouTube videos. The algorithms eventually pushed me into this strange interview, in which

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