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Writing

The craft of putting one sentence after another.

Ottoline Vance in Writing

Cut the First Paragraph

A thirty-year habit of removing the part you wrote to get warm, and the one time it failed me.

Oct 24 · 4 min read5515

Saffron Lund in Design

Why Your Paragraphs Feel Cramped

The trouble is almost never the font, and I say that as someone who sells fonts

Oct 30 · 4 min read3346

Ottoline Vance in Work

How to Give Feedback a Writer Can Use

The worst note I ever gave was four words long, and it took a mail carrier eleven months to survive it.

Oct 20 · 4 min read4336

Hollis Marchetti in Work

Four in the Morning Is Its Own Country

Nineteen years of night shifts, and what I have learned not to trust at that hour.

Oct 16 · 4 min read4234

Imani Castellane in Food

My Grandmother Never Wrote Anything Down

Four months, one pair of church gloves, and a potato roll nobody alive can verify.

Sep 14 · 4 min read2594