Writing About Writing — Quarter Mile
A weirdly high percentage of my friends and former co-workers have told me they’d like to become better writers. For the rest of this essay, I make it my job to explain why I believe you should consider writing and how you might go about getting started. (Aside: this week, we are launching Writing Club to help.) If you really wanted to run a marathon, you could do it. All it would take is going outside and running for at least a few days a week until you were capable. And then, a few months from now, you could be racing across the finish line with a half-decent time. That would feel great. And not only would it feel great, it would be normal. People run marathons all the time. Things weren’t always this way. Half a century ago, running was a weird thing to do if you weren’t a professional athlete. In the ‘60s it was so weird to run that it wasn’t uncommon for police officers to stop you just for running outdoors. But that changed, and now more people than ever run. Why? Ask runners why