{"id":352,"date":"2025-05-31T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing-by-adam-mastroianni\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:54:39","slug":"28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing-by-adam-mastroianni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing-by-adam-mastroianni\/","title":{"rendered":"28 slightly rude notes on writing – by Adam Mastroianni"},"content":{"rendered":"

making art is painful because it forces the mind to do something it\u2019s not meant to do. If you really want to get that sentence right, if you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream. That level of precision is simply unnatural.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/head>There\u2019s something special about every word written by a human because they chose to do<\/span> <\/span><\/span>this thing <\/span><\/em>instead of anything else. Something moved them, irked them, inspired them, possessed them, and then electricity shot everywhere in their brain and then\u2014crucially\u2014they laid fingers on keys and put that electricity inside the computer. Writing is a costly signal of caring about something. Good writing, in fact, might be a sign of<\/span> <\/span><\/span>pathological <\/span><\/em>caring.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/head>lots of people think they need to get better at writing, but nobody thinks they need to get better at thinking, and this is why they don\u2019t get better at writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/head>The more you think, the closer you get to the place where the most interesting writing happens: that tiny slip of land between \u201cTHINGS THAT ARE OBVIOUS\u201d and \u201cTHINGS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY WRONG\u201d.<\/span>
\n\u2014 Read on www.experimental-history.com\/p\/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

making art is painful because it forces the mind to do something it\u2019s not meant to do. If you really want to get that sentence right, if you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream. That level of precision is simply unnatural. There\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}