Ask HN: Can you give me some advice on writing essays?
I am trying to learn to write some interesting essays/blog post, and I need some advice, because I'm completely stuck. I have had trouble coming up with things to talk about my whole life. I read a lot, and I feel like I know a lot of things, but when I sit down to write my mind goes completely blank, I have nothing to say, or rather I feel like there's nothing worth writing about. I don't have anything to say to people who know less than me, because explaining obvious things seems boring, and I don't know what to say to people on HN/LessWrong, because I feel like they are smarter than me and already know everything I am about to say. For example when I read Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays, I think that I already know a lot of the things he is talking about, so before I've read them I had this information in my head, information that could be turned int
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I am trying to learn to write some interesting essays/blog post, and I need some advice, because I'm completely stuck. I have had trouble coming up with things to talk about my whole life. I read a lot, and I feel like I know a lot of things, but when I sit down to writ
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- rayalez
- Ended
- 2015
- Source
- hackernews