The amount of rehashing that's done by writers writing about writing is really beyond the pale. And indescribably ironic. But not in a loveable kind of way—in a well-Christ-why-don't-you-just-set-my-hair-on-fire-and-be-done-with-it kind of way. Here are five cases in point:
1. How to write for the web.
If you consider yourself a writer, and you can't think how you'd write for the web yet, well, Joe, you've pretty much missed that boat on that one.
2. How to break writer's block.
Really? Isn't the answer obvious: stop reading, start writing? It doesn't take Einstein (or a submissions editor) to work that out.
3. Words you shouldn't use online.
One more whiney, sour-grapes, "weasel words" listicle and I'll stick this pencil in my eye. Or throw up. Possibly both, at the same time.
4. How to write better(er).
Surely the answer's obvious here, too: stop reading, start ... oh, you know where this is heading. (For the love of God, people, what part of this equation are we not getting?)
5. Writing is hard, let's talk about that for a while.
This is a growing field of content, and one that panders exclusively and, I postulate, insultingly, to those who can't write. Do you really want to read 2,500 "inspiring" words of another "author's" "journey"? Or do you want to read Fowler's Modern English Usage and find out, say, what a gerund is(n't)? I dunno kid, the choice is yours.
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