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spyckie2yesterday at 10:42 PM0 repliesview on HN

The thing that inspires my writing is that the best sentences are self evident. Meaning you declare it without evidence and it feels so intuitively right to most people. It resonates, either being their lived experience, or being the inevitable conclusion of a line of thinking.

Making a sentence like requires deeply understanding a problem space to the point where these sentences emerge, rather than any "craft" of writing.

So the craft is thinking through a topic, usually by writing about it, and then deleting everything you've written because you arrived at the self evident position, and then writing from the vantage point of that self evident statement.

I feel that writing is a personal craft and you must dig it out of yourself through the practice of it, rather than learn it from others. The usage of AI as a resource makes this much clearer to me. You must be confident in your own writing not because it is following best practices or techniques of others but because it is the best version of your own voice at the time of being written.