How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
This article is bad advice. Any fool can string a few words together. Truly writing means re-writing.<p>Your first draft is always going to be ugly, raw data. Writing as a craft means taking that given set of words and processing it until it's concise and clear. Cut and replace until your argument is airtight.<p>And another thing: all writing is argument.<p>There are so many great essays about writing that are infinitely better than this - I'm surprised this gained so much traction on HN.<p>Here's one of my favorites by George Orwell: <a href="http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/" rel="nofollow">http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...</a>