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How I write essays - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland

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Notes on process

Microscope image of wood tissue On 24 September, I wrote in the waste book about how I created the essays I’m most happy with. I was looking for patterns in my processes (and how the processes behind the good essays differed from those that led to the many mediocre essays I’ve written over the last 3.5 years). The idealized version of how my better essays were written looked like this (abbreviated): I spend plenty of time reading, talking to interesting people, and writing in my notebooks. (Starting essays before I have deeply internalized an idea does not work for me.) When I get…

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