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Writing Advice from John McPhee | Jonathan Baldie’s Blog

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Hey! Jon here. Just a heads-up that this post is over a year old and is therefore likely to be outdated. 5th October, 2018 Share on Twitter Hi guys! This post is from a past email from my storytelling newsletter. If you'd like to receive these as soon as they're written, sign up to my email list here. I wanted to start this week's storytelling newsletter with some writing advice from an amazing writer. John McPhee is/was a legendary writer for The New Yorker and I just got done re-reading Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process which is a book of his essays on non-fiction writing. McPhee spends the bulk of the book explaining how he told many of the real stories that he has become famous for. To become such a prolific writer he had to develop a rigorous planning process. He would research and observe people for weeks or even months at a time, noting all of it down. Only once he had his notes in order, could he begin to meticulously plan the structure of his stories. In Draft No. 4 he even

--> --> Writing Advice from John McPhee | Jonathan Baldie’s Blog Essay Writing Advice from John McPhee 5th October, 2018 Hi guys! This post is from a past email from my storytelling newsletter. If you'd like to receive these as soon as they're written, sign up to my email list here . I wanted to start this week's storytelling newsletter with some writing advice from an amazing writer. John McPhee is/was a legendary writer for The New Yorker and I just got done re-reading Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process which is a book of his essays on non-fiction writing. McPhee spends the bulk of the book

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