Tag: creative-writing

Writing as Discovery — I Don’t Write Because I Know

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Writing as discovery is not a technique. It is not a method you choose, the way you might choose a structure or a style. It is something you either trust or you don’t — and most writers, at least early in their practice, don’t.

I used to assume that writing required certainty. That before I sat down to begin, I should already know what I believed, what I wanted to say, and where the argument would land. The page, I thought, was for articulation, not discovery. You worked out the thinking first, and then you wrote it down.

Experience has taught me otherwise.

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The Myth of Inspiration — On Waiting to Write

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The myth of inspiration is one most writers accept without question. Ask someone why they haven’t written the thing they want to write, and the answer comes quickly: they haven’t been inspired yet.

They’re waiting. For the right moment, the right mood, the right convergence of energy and idea that will carry them through a blank page and out the other side with something worth keeping. They believe this convergence will arrive eventually, and that when it does, the writing will come easily — fluently, almost effortlessly, the way it looks from the outside when a writer describes their process in an interview.

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What I Don’t Do When I Write for the Internet

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Most advice about writing for the internet focuses on what to add: more keywords, more structure, more optimisation, more output.

Over time, I’ve found the opposite to be more useful.

This post is not about technique. It’s about restraint — the decisions I consciously don’t make when I write for the internet, even when they might promise faster results.

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