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Two memorable quotes from Ira Glass’s interview

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Matt Chung

While perusing Aaron’s Swartz’s blog, I stopped and read his post titled “Writing A Book: Part 2”. In this post, Aaron swoons over Ira Glass’s unparalleled stor...

Writing

Reader expectations and three dimensions for emphasizing writing

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Matt Chung

Fred the dog beater Look at the above example, the four sentences. Now, take each of those sentences and imagine you poll an audience of 100 people, asking them...

Writing

You should NOT always prefer active over passive voice

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Matt Chung

Like many other aspiring authors, I’m always sharpening my writing skills, dozens of writing books (including one of my favorites: On Writing by Stephen K...

Writing

Want to improve your craft of writing? Imitate!

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Matt Chung

There are no shortcuts to becoming a great writer. As Stephen King says, great writers need to read a lot and write a lot. But that’s not enough. Nope. I’...

Notes/Organization/Writing

A short review on Zettlr (open source Zettelkasten app)

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Matt Chung

I serendipitously stumbled on another Zettelkasten desktop application called Zettlr. Perusing the online forum over at Zettelkasten.de, I had noticed that at l...

Embrace the mess. Source: https://proofbranding.com/shitty-first-drafts/
Writing

Neil Strauss’s 3 pass writing technique

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Matt Chung

Three passes World class writers sit down and pour out beautiful prose in a single sitting, right? That’s the image I image I held in mind for many years ...

Advanced Operating Systems/Writing

Free E-book: Advanced operating systems (AOS) refresher course – summary and study guide

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Matt Chung

Click here to download “Advanced OS refresher course – summary and study guide” I compiled my various blog posts from the advanced operating s...

The art of the paragraph
Writing

30 different ways to write paragraphs – series introduction

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Matt Chung

This blog post is the first in the series on the different ways to write powerful paragraphs, inspired by Victor Pellgrino’s book “A writer’s ...

Graduate School/Home Organization/Parenting/Weekly Reviews/Writing

Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/11/01

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Matt Chung

No Halloween this year I used to love Halloween growing up, not so much the dressing up part but the knocking on doors and getting handed fist fulls of candy. N...

Thinking out loud/Writing

Being paged out of bed at 3 AM …

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Matt Chung

Sadly I didn’t get to start the day off with writing, my morning routine, since my phone paged me out of bed at 3 AM due to an operational issue from work...

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