How I wrote "Looking for Alice"

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Alexander Calder’s workshop Something I found frustrating when learning how to write was that writing advice tends to be very low resolution. You have someone looking back on their experience writing for decades and they sum it up by saying, oh, well, don’t use adverbs. I wish there were more detailed accounts of the decisions writers make when they struggle with a particular piece. And since my general rule of thumb when writing this Substack is “write stuff that I would have loved to read a year ago”, I figured I should do that. A case study of how I write an essay. I’ll do Looking for…

How I wrote "Looking for Alice"

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