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Sweat the Technique: On Writing Process and Possibilities

Lincoln Michel · 7 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    The methods and techniques a writer uses to compose a work shape the finished work as much as a painter's or musician's technical choices shape theirs.

    Their wordsThe methods we choose to use to compose the work determine the final work as much as any decision by a painter or musician.

  2. Our reading

    A loosely plotted, anarchic novel requires a correspondingly loose, unplanned writing process to produce it.

    Their wordsYou need a freewheeling process to create a freewheeling work.

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