📋 makeist miscellany
ISSUE #170
Since I’m still elbows-deep in organizing spices and spatulas, this week’s newsletter is a small miscellany of things that caught my eye.
I am obsessed with Harry Grundy’s sandpaper art. →
Travis Nichols is obsessed with making fonts. →
Things Oliver Burkeman is still learning about writing. →
Print it out, type it back in.
Printing out the most recent section of writing, deleting it from the manuscript, then typing it from the print version back onto the screen.
The result is that I make all sorts of editorial improvements as I retype, in a very painless way; it’s like a conversation with someone who almost gets what I’m trying to say, so that my only job is to suggest a slight rephrasing. Or what feels like a slight rephrasing in the moment, anyway. Looking back, that’s often the stage at which a piece of writing went from being hopelessly confusing to as clear as I’m ever going to make it.
A collaged, cardboard casket is very on-brand for me.
(if you can believe it, I only have three of the seven! looks like some library holds are in my future..)
Speaking of the library, this was in my most recent checkout confirmation email:
You just saved $17.99 by using your library. You have saved $3,146 this past year and $1,131,472 since you began using the library! 🤯
Solid advice from Anna Brones’ 78-year-old mom
Oh hey! Thanks!