Opinion : AI Writing Disclosures Are a Joke. Here’s How to Improve Them.<br /> by [[Yasha Hartberg]] August 15, 2025
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- Aug 2025
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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Whether you log your work with a notebook, a version control app, or a folder full of drafts, the goal is the same: make the writing process traceable.
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It’s that they flatten the chaotic, recursive, very human writing process into something tidy and mechanical.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Ray Bradbury's Rules to Writing: Don't Think!<br /> accessed on 2025-08-12T09:45:59
"...you must never think at the typewriter, you must feel." —Ray Bradbury
This also cleverly goes against the idea that "writing is thinking". Bradbury frames it as "writing is feeling" or "writing is being."
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- Jul 2025
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chrisosmond.com chrisosmond.com
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Let Yourself Be Partial by [[Chris Osmond]]
On writing and first drafts... meh
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www.millersbookreview.com www.millersbookreview.com
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Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it. . . . You get one paragraph partly right, and then you’ll go back and work on the other part. It’s a different thing.
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/writerly-life-joan-didion
apparently quoted from Joan Didion: The Last Interview
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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Digging by [[Seamus Heaney]]<br /> via Poetry Foundation
Dinah Lenny mentioned this poem at LAAC Writer's Club 2024-04-18
Seamus Heaney mentions how his father and grandfather worked the land to dig and grow potatoes, yet he chooses to do his "digging" with his pen.
See also and cross-date his other poem about digging potatoes: https://nationalfamineway.ie/seamus-heaneys-at-a-potato-digging/ "At a Potato Digging"
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crimereads.com crimereads.com
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“So I had this problem—work or starve. So I thought I’d combine the two and decided to become a writer.”
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www.c-span.org www.c-span.org
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What does Josephs say about himself? (Peter Brier)
I get my education writing about things that until I actually do write about them I don't know that much about. I read. up I think through. I write out.
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- Jun 2025
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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as Hemingway noted, “[Writers] are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
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- May 2025
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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The Screenless Writer by [[Steven Budden Jr.]] (aka Classic Typewriter)
"My screenless computer, which is a box of these [handmade] cards. The NEXUS which stands for Network of EXperiences Synchronicities and UnderStanding." —Steven Budden, Jr.
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- Mar 2025
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substack.com substack.com
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The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot by [[James Horton]]
Horton describes writing as a top down process rather than a bottom up one, but tries to frame it in a bottom up one. No wonder people have issues with writing, especially non-fiction stuff. Too many different processes going on all at once in too many directions.
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you can write your draft in one long, stream-of-thought rant. I call these “splat drafts” — you get everything in your head out on the page at once, without regard for form (hence the “splat”). Then you treat it as the raw material for a second, proper draft. Think of it as the act of dumping the puzzle pieces out on the table so you can sift through them and see what fits together.
He uses the phrase "splat draft" in the sense that others might call a "vomit draft", but not in the sense of Mozart's peeing cow.
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where they do things like writing live poetry on typewriters at weddings
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abqtypers.substack.com abqtypers.substack.com
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Matthew also introduced the Type-Away—quiet, dedicated time and space to work on writing projects without distraction. These once-a-month gatherings take place in a library meeting room, as opposed to a coffee shop, to provide an atmosphere for focused writing.
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- Feb 2025
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lithub.com lithub.com
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When Pollan suggested that writing from a question instead of a thesis makes for more compelling writing and thinking, for reader and writer alike, eyeballs fell from heads.
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- Jan 2025
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Sword, Helen. Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. https://amzn.to/4iYPhCE.
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Scholars Talk Writing: Helen Sword by [[Rachel Toor]] in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-07-31 archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722062708/https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-talk-writing-helen-sword/
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a larger ecology of writing.
I like this framing!
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My research showed that successful academics build their writing practice on a complex set of attitudes and attributes that I call their “writing BASE” — behavioral habits of discipline and persistence, artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care, social habits of collegiality and collaboration, and emotional habits of positivity and pleasure.
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It’s not your day-to-day habits that matter, I found, so much as your habits of mind.
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Not only did very few of the academics I talked with follow the recommended practices; many of them actually reported engaging in behaviors that the writing guides explicitly warn against, such as “binge writing” or writing only when they feel like it.
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- Nov 2024
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billyoppenheimer.com billyoppenheimer.com
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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing,” Emerson said. “The discerning will read…only the authentic utterances of the oracle—all the rest he rejects.”
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- Oct 2024
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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“He was the first person I knew who had his own personal copying machine,” she said. “He was terrified of losing things, so he often made a lot of copies.”
quote from Kate Edgar, Sacks' assistant and editor
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- Sep 2024
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www.curbed.com www.curbed.com
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He handwrites first, then types it up, triple-spacing in the old newspaper fashion, then pencil-edits and retypes, pencil-edits and retypes.
Robert Caro's method of writing
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blogs.wsj.com blogs.wsj.com
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“The Da Vinci Code” Trial: Dan Brown’s Witness Statement Is a Great Read by [[Peter Lattman]]
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- Aug 2024
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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I want a bookwheel for my typewriter collection.
Isaac Azimov had multiple typewriters and used each of them for work on a different writing project.
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- May 2024
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Writing six hours a day, often seven days a week, he pumped out a new book nearly annually for years. He ultimately published 34 books, accounting for shorter works that were later incorporated into larger books, including 18 novels and several acclaimed memoirs and assorted autobiographical works, along with plays, screenplays and collections of stories, essays and poems.
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- Apr 2024
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www.woman-of-letters.com www.woman-of-letters.com
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Great Books tend to arise in the presence of great audiences. by [[Naomi Kanakia]]
Kanakia looks at what may have made 19th C. Russian literature great. This has potential pieces to say about how other cultures had higher than usual rates of creativity in art, literature, etc.
What commonalities did these sorts of societies have? Were they all similar or were there broad ranges of multiple factors which genetically created these sorts of great outputs?
Could it have been just statistical anomaly?
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- Feb 2024
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Local file Local file
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Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelistis doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment withthe dangers and difficulties of words.
This seems to be the duality of Millard Kaufman (and certainly other writers'?) advice that to be a good writer, one must first be well read.
Of course, perhaps the two really are meant to be a hand in a glove and the reader should actively write as they read thereby doing both practices at once.
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- Oct 2023
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delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
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RULE 2. STATE THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE BOOK
The first several rules of reading a book analytically follow the same process of writing a book as suggested in the snowflake method.
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- Jul 2023
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Books aren’t something one approves or disapproves of; they are to be understood, interpreted, learned from, shocked by, argued with and enjoyed. Moreover, the evolution of literature and the other arts, their constant renewal over the centuries, has always been fueled by what is now censoriously labeled “cultural appropriation” but which is more properly described as “influence,” “inspiration” or “homage.” Poets, painters, novelists and other artists all borrow, distort and transform. That’s their job; that’s what they do.
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- May 2023
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jillianhess.substack.com jillianhess.substack.com
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July 7, 1942I want to take all my notebooks and read through them for important phrases — use them. It would be wonderful to do it on a weekend. Alone, in the quiet.
from Patricia Highsmith's diaries
this seems similar to Ralph Waldo Emmerson's journals/commonplaces where he collected interesting phrases for use in his writing. Here she's explicitly stating her desire to do this for her writing work.
The "Alone, in the quite." quote seems to mirror her appreciation and stated desire to be alone at home in the 1978 Good Afternoon interview.
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- Nov 2022
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billyoppenheimer.com billyoppenheimer.com
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David Brooks talks about what he calls the “theory of maximum taste.” It’s similar to what Murphy is saying. “Exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness,” Brooks writes. “If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you [don’t].”
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- Sep 2022
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Courtney, Jennifer Pooler. “A Review of Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts.” The Journal of Effective Teaching 7, no. 1 (2007): 74–77.
Review of: Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9248.
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