Why you should start a blog, too
Reads that have informed my blogging philosophy
My inspirations
- Visakan Veerasamy's letter to a young songwriter (and his quest to write 1000 word vomits of 1000 words each)
- Paul Graham's essays (life is short, write simply, write like you talk)
- The Tail End, a post by Tim Urban on his blog waitbutwhy
- David Foster Wallace: "This is Water", "Forever Overhead"
- The writing advice of Ernest Hemingway and E.B. White
- Jia Jiang's lessons from 100 days of rejection
- Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
- Anything Ray Bradbury wrote
- John Steinbeck's letter of fatherly advice to his son
- "The Paper Menagerie", a short story by Ken Liu
- Karl Paulnack's welcome address to freshman parents at Boston Conservatory
- 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
- The New York Times' Modern Love column
- Advice columns, in particular Dear Sugar and Ask Polly
- 99% Invisible, a podcast by Roman Mars
- Read A Little Poetry, a blog by T. De Los Reyes
- The Art of Noticing, a Substack column & email newsletter by Rob Walker
- Suleika Jaouad's Isolation Journals
- Idle Words, a blog by Maciej Cegłowski
- The TinyLetter Forwards archive
- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs by Adam Mastroianni
- Looking for Alice by Henrik Karlsson
- Half-assing it with everything you've got, Failing with abandon by So8res
Cool sites
#english