joshuago’s writing Bookmarks

To help his brother, the more worldly and pragmatic Quintus Cicero wrote a no-nonsense guide for winning elections that rings as true today as it did 2,000 years ago.

Instructions for how to submit an opinion piece to the LA Times.

When you post your deep libertarian thoughts on Facebook you're basically flushing great writing material down the toilet.

The challenge for writers in today's globally connected world: no literary canon, which used to be common to a nation or culture. If you're writing for everyone, you're writing for no one.

Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing literally less mind-blowing.

Learning depends on reading as a practice of immersion in thought and feeling.

A great piece to read for anyone who is stuck in a blogging rut or making excuses not to start in the first place. Lots of great reminders on the many benefits of blogging.

Those of us looking to produce high quality content for the web should consider the possibility that our first problem is that we’re calling it content. This commoditizes it and sends the message that quality doesn't matter.

Where the blog suggests paths, the book draws conclusions. Neither is superior to the other; rather, they represent different modes of writing—the first expansive, the latter convergent. Each mode suggests and learns from the other.

Never tell the whole story in the headline if you want optimal click-through.