A tidy summary of of events around the attempted coup of 1/6/21.
December 19, 2022 https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-19-2022
@Queasy Yes, I read Heather every morning. This was quite a succinct summary of a complicated set of events. I don’t know how she manages to write & publish these on a daily basis— along with teaching, research & writing her books! (I published weekly essay on Substack— and it takes me half the week to research, write & edit the piece!)
@Mj_Osa
I wish my own writing skills were better.
The stories sound good in my head but get kind of lost when I start typing.
@Queasy The thing is: you have to be ruthless with yourself. Unafraid to cut, slash, delete, & remove. I typically cut almost half of what I’ve written in order for the final version to be crisp, logical & focused. To make it easier, I’ll keep the deleted words/sentences in a “cut file”, telling myself I’m not deleting them forever. But I rarely rescue stuff from the cut file to use in a pub. Anyway, that’s my process
@Mj_Osa
Thanks for the feedback!