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From Maria Popova, some thoughts from Ursula K. Le Guin on how to make a piece of writing good and why it's pointless to look for rules: "There are no recipes. We have no Julia Child. Successful professional writers are not withholding mysterious secrets from eager beginners. The only way anybody ever learns to write well is by trying to write well. This usually begins by reading good writing by other people, and writing very badly by yourself, for a long time."