Ooh, nice! I had a very compressed version of that as tip #4 in my list of tips from Inkhaven and actually paid out a $15 honey money prize for it (long story).
Actually that’s a small subset of your advice. Probably the more important part is what your title refers to. The thing where you tell someone, “I can’t figure out how to say XYZ” and they reply “what you just said works”. Scott Aaronson said that was his secret to adding value as a contributing writer at Inkhaven. He’d read the draft, say “I don’t get it”, the author would explain, and Scott would say “great, write that!”.
Ooh, nice! I had a very compressed version of that as tip #4 in my list of tips from Inkhaven and actually paid out a $15 honey money prize for it (long story).
Actually that’s a small subset of your advice. Probably the more important part is what your title refers to. The thing where you tell someone, “I can’t figure out how to say XYZ” and they reply “what you just said works”. Scott Aaronson said that was his secret to adding value as a contributing writer at Inkhaven. He’d read the draft, say “I don’t get it”, the author would explain, and Scott would say “great, write that!”.