All Writing Advice is Bullshit: A Manifesto

Daniel Melo
4 min readNov 6, 2022
Credit: Joy Marino

All writing advice is bullshit. Present aphorisms included. It’s all bullshit, you know it’s all bullshit, and you keep reading this, that, and the other piece of writing bullshit to feel better about writing and/or bullshitting or to make you think that you will feel better about writing. Bullshit.

The act of writing, contrary to every last piece of wisdom spewed about the topic…

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