William Fitzpatrick · Aug 16, 2026 · 12:22 PM UTC

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You don't ask a fish how to catch a fish. You don't ask a woman how to get her to fall in love with you. And you don't ask a reader how to improve your writing. Here's what readers actually want:

Stop Asking Readers for Feedback

Have you ever seen the romcom, About Time (2013)?

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William Fitzpatrick · Aug 4, 2026 · 9:40 AM UTC

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or: The Day My Student Fired Me

Clear Writing, or Valuable Writing

First the robots came for the Programmers, and I did not speak out— for I was not a Programmer;

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William Fitzpatrick · Jul 13, 2026 · 8:27 AM UTC

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The best language is the one everyone speaks

Should we save dying languages?

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William Fitzpatrick · Jun 29, 2026 · 3:27 AM UTC

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Copywork Won't Make You a Better Writer (but this might)

The legend goes that Hunter S. Thompson, learning to write, typed out the whole of The Great Gatsby word for word. And then A Farewell to Arms. The idea being that he could feel great prose move t…

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