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Starting from scraps

Austin Kleon · 12 Oct 2022 · austinkleon.com ↗

2 korrents from this piece

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    A first draft is necessarily bad, and that is exactly why one has to be written.

    Their wordsHence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.

    Their wordsI’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.
    Interesting