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Hazards of Writing Non-Fiction

For decades, I've done private writing for audiences of one. Very short pieces.

 
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  • Scene Studies
  • Abstracts.
  • 30-second talks.
  • Personals' ads.

Often work that was incorporated into large pieces and re-used with permission and without attribution in works for a large audience.

Mainly these pieces captured an idea or dream that some individual was desperately failing to communicate and whether or not it was usefully reused, it gave them a chance to feel heard and understood.

Recently, I started blog pieces here for a somewhat larger audience.

From this, I am having a new and problematic experience. As I create this draft, I wish I were still asleep. It is well before sunrise. I was awoken by an idea about United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5: . ()

I am not nearly alert enough to write the piece. If I wrote it right now it would be 4 long pieces with no more useful information than the one short pieces will ultimately have, but until I wrote down the sixty words of notes, I expect that even the strongest sleeping pills in the world would have been useless.

Do all writers go through this?

Is it just ?

Written by Russell Brand

Entrepreneur in residence at Founder Institute, he has mentored, performed due diligence on and invested in numerous early stage companies. Hundreds of these early stage companies have described Russell’s insights and advice as the most useful thing in the history of their companies. He has always had an inborn ability to find more valuable uses of new ideas and faster ways to achieve results.

 

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