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Rachel Aaron
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Rachel Aaron writes Pretentious Title, a personal blog at thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com about writing and career. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rachel Aaron's posts on writing and productivity, such as iterating on a rough first draft and setting daily word-count goals. One commenter says a post inspired them to write their first novel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing Diary of Rachel Aaron, author of the Legend of Eli Monpress
Most-linked posts?
- How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-11-26
What Hacker News says?
The process of creating a great [novel, product, presentation] is iterative. You create a first version. It sucks, you find obvious flaws, and you make a few passes through editing it. Then you show it to other people and get more feedback. Repeat. The advantage of high-level, low-detail [outlines, prototypes, sketches] is that you can find a lot of flaws without doing all the work, and iterate faster. It sucks when…
Comment linking /2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html
on “Ignore details early on”Submitted How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day as a story · 13 points
HN discussion500 words is good, 750 words is better: http://750words.com (Love this site, love maintaining a streak and earning badges) Even better would be 10,000 words a day... http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-... (This post inspired me to write my first novel) I haven't reached 10,000 words a day, but I was able to sustain 4,000 words a day long enough to finish my first novel: http://www.syncingdre…
Comment linking /2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html
on “Forget the last one. Do the next one.”Submitted From 2,000 words per day to 10,000 with self-experimentation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Paid Marketing Works (And Doesn't) for Books as a story · 1 points
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