Try advice if it.… has a load of empirical evidence suggesting that it is helpful to the vast majority of people.
This ideally is what I’m looking for, do you know of anything non-trivial that fits into this category? Or a good place to start researching this.
The alternative hypothesis is that an individuals conditions for producing good writing are s idiosyncratic and/or dependent on ndetectable psychological factors that nothing generalises, but that would be somewhat depressing.
[On a side note I have been extremely impressed by your writing, having devoured Luminosity and sequels with enthusiasm ]
I’m not aware of any controlled studies that have been done on the subject. People interview famous novelists about their process, but that’s a weird sample, and relies on self-reports about what factors influence the writers.
This ideally is what I’m looking for, do you know of anything non-trivial that fits into this category? Or a good place to start researching this. The alternative hypothesis is that an individuals conditions for producing good writing are s idiosyncratic and/or dependent on ndetectable psychological factors that nothing generalises, but that would be somewhat depressing.
[On a side note I have been extremely impressed by your writing, having devoured Luminosity and sequels with enthusiasm ]
I’m not aware of any controlled studies that have been done on the subject. People interview famous novelists about their process, but that’s a weird sample, and relies on self-reports about what factors influence the writers.