Book

On Writing Well

On Writing Well, by William Zinsser, is a guide to writing nonfiction prose that stresses clarity, simplicity and cutting unnecessary words. Referenced in 4 episodes of Lenny’s Podcast.

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On Writing Well

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William Zinsser

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  • … writing on writing well by William Zinszer

  • … And one is specifically to help you write more concisely called On Writing Well. I don't know if you've read that.

  • … One is there's this book I read called On Writing Well, that is one of the most impactful books for writing for me, and the whole book is like, I don't know, 20 chapters and every chapter is more things y...

  • … a book called On Writing Well that taught me a lot about cutting two-thirds of what you've written to get to the core of it. I'm curious, what else are you doing to try to harden ...