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notes on writing well

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Working notes, by Michael Nielsen: These are rough notes. I'm writing them to help me improve my polished writing, not as models of prose in themselves. It would take me perhaps a hundred hours or so to turn them into something even vaguely adequate, which is time I don't presently have. Also: note that I will ignore pull requests or issue reports (same reason). It's hard to write the truth: When I say it's hard to write the truth, it sounds as though I'm saying that I lie a lot, or I'm accusing other writers of lying. That's not my intent. If your writing has novelty, then early drafts will likely be, at best, rough approximations to the truth. Those drafts will contain sentences and paragraphs which are the written equivalent of those conversational fumbles where we finally burst out with "You know what I mean". Unfortunately, when writing it's easy not to notice when we make such fumbles, and to settle for writing which is a poor approximation to the truth. The only way I know to ad

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