Some thoughts on writing (от Dan Luu)
I see a lot of essays framed as writing advice which are actually thinly veiled descriptions of how someone writes that basically say "you should write how I write" <...>
<...> if you're trying to figure out what stylistic choices are right for you, you should start from your goals and what you're good at and go from there, not listen to somebody who's going to tell you to write like them. Besides being unlikely to work for you even if someone is able to describe what makes their writing tick, most advice is written by people who don't understand how their writing works.
Как это часто у Dan Luu бывает, у эссе несколько дополнений, некоторые из которых с основной темой связаны несколько косвенно.