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To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610780

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To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610780

#HackerNews #nonfiction #writing #storytelling #creative #process #writing #tips #tree #metaphor

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610780

#HackerNews #nonfiction #writing #storytelling #creative #process #writing #tips #tree #metaphor

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610780

#HackerNews #nonfiction #writing #storytelling #creative #process #writing #tips #tree #metaphor

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610780

#HackerNews #nonfiction #writing #storytelling #creative #process #writing #tips #tree #metaphor

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Bullet the Blue Sky*

I went outside 
to watch the 
stars.

It is as if 
all the bullets 
from the war 
have been fired 
into the sky,
tearing holes 
in the black velvet 
for a little bit 
of heaven 
to shine 
through.

Every once 
in a while 
the fabric rips 
as a shooting star 
races across 
the sky,
but then 
it quickly 
mends 
itself.

November 2, 1988
La Esperanza, Nicaragua

Part of the continuing Ugly American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

*From the U2 song of the same title