Posts by Elliot Vance
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The case against the perfect first sentence
What finishes a piece of work is rarely inspiration. It is a deadline, a collaborator, or the specific embarrassment of having told someone it was nearly done.
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The second draft is the real one
Attention is not a quantity you have, it is a shape you make. Two uninterrupted hours and four interrupted half-hours are not the same material, and no amount of arithmetic will tu
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