Writing Craft
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- Five Writing Templates A writing template is a shape a section or a page is poured into before the words are written, and each of the five thinking habits gives one. On an ordinary
- Opening Doors The two paragraph-shaped entrances a page can take: definitional handover and payoff-or-ramp, the layer above the first-sentence moves, derived from 49
- Opening Moves Catalog The catalog of page-opening moves, derived from verbatim-verified openings across the admired-blog corpus (Gwern-weighted); openers are picked from here at
- The Cold Open The operational register's opening: the claim at full strength in sentence one, small stakes held, application immediately after. When to use it, when the
- The Context Problem A sentence that uses something the page has not given looks complete to the writer and unreadable to everyone else. Rules about the output do not catch it. The