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Reedsy
Company blog · blog.reedsy.com/blogwritingbusiness
Reedsy is the company blog at blog.reedsy.com, writing about writing and business. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Reedsy posts on story structure, fantasy map generators, and publishing economics, plus a self-editing course. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Reedsy Blog offers a daily dose of writing tips, publishing advice, and clever book marketing ideas.
What Hacker News says?
For me, the activation energy for writing used to be high because I found I couldn't muster up inspiration when I needed it. Then I realized something about myself: for me, inspiration is episodic . It comes in chunks, rarely all at once. So my solution was: 1) Observe the world, pay attention to things. 2) Jot down snippets of observations/ideas in a single Google Docs document (available on almost any platform). D…
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on “Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence”Submitted What’s for Breakfast? Coffee, Eggs and Reedsy Learning as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently read an article (can't find it, but similar to this: https://blog.reedsy.com/how-much-do-authors-make/ ) which pointed out that the publishing industry is very similar to Venture Capital where 1 hit pays for a ton of the other books that sell at most 1000s of copies. So, if you make books available for free, with unlimited copies, the publisher never gets their advance back, never funds the next hit, etc,…
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on “The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself”Submitted Show, Don't Tell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have this bookmarked. I'm not sure if any of them meet your criteria, but... https://blog.reedsy.com/fantasy-map-generators/ 15-year old me would probably fail out of school playing with these
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on “Fantasy Map Brushes”Submitted Narrative Story Structures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn a different note, I like the Rick and Morty one as well. Not sure if this is going to fit investor pitches except in very esoteric cases. I used this during a cyber security session though with success. reference : https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-structure/dan-harmon-sto...
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on “Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors”The ProWritingAid team has made a free course on this ( https://blog.reedsy.com/learning/courses/editing/self-edit-l... ). It covers technical issues like ticky sentences, excessive pronouns, and overused words — plus stylistic things.
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on “How to Edit Your Own Writing”Kind of being pedantic about definition of "plot" or "plot point". Isn't this whole book about climate change? And the character experiences a climate 'event', that impacts the direction of the story? Changes their perspective? "There's a common misconception that a plot point is anything that happens in a story. In this way, people often confuse a plot point for a story beat. Story beats are the smallest units of s…
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on “Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat”
