# Chad Nauseam - Writing Advice (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/56115492) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Chad Nauseam]] **Full Title**:: Writing Advice **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [chadnauseam.com](https://chadnauseam.com/advice/writing-advice) **Host**:: [[chadnauseam.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-11-08]] **Created**:: [[2025-11-08]] ## Highlights - Visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile of piping is packed with wastewater. This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h290m3f1g2qqqh1bh82rhg)) ^955414009 - At the beginning of a writing session, you must write out every bad idea that reflexively comes to mind. Instead of being self-critical and resisting these bad ideas, you must openly accept them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h29czm0bqabnjeq5xx4d5n)) ^955414018 - Once you've generated enough bad output, your brain starts to reflexively identify which elements cause the badness. Then it begins to avoid them. You start pattern-matching novel ideas with greater intuition. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h29ygyr9nxrsr3jdh3z73j)) ^955414032 - The best cure for writer's block is to just write anyway, even if it's shit ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h2agkr44w7h64vydnm3bv1)) ^955414046 - One of the simplest ways to improve one's prose and to keep a reader's attention is simply to vary sentence length. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h2bv4nxh25mx74ye3wzfwg)) ^955414107 - If two sentences in a row start with the same word, it sounds unwieldy. If three or four do, it sounds bizarre. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9h2er4ga65dezvpeh39yfzn)) ^955414189