The part about writing a really terrible initial draft and then rewriting it into something great is like Michelangelo saying to just chip away at the marble until all the parts that don't look like David are gone. It's not really advice about working hard and persevering, people
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I'm also a fan of Botvinnik's chess advice. "Keep making correct moves and wait for your opponent to slip up." No one who has followed it has ever lost a game
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That advice makes a big assumption about writing being easier than editing. I personally don't find that the case.
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I read it the other way, that editing is easier?
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I like hearing him say that writing is hard. It’s like if Jack Nicklaus said that golf was frustrating. They’re just like us!
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Yeah, I had an epiphany once when I realized that elite athletes feel exactly the same exhaustion after breaking a world record that I do after climbing the stairs. Their subjective experience of all-out effort is the same as yours or mine. It's just that we suck
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ok but the interview is also really funny
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It's delightful!
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