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Day 140: Good writing is about attitude—and editing.

Good writing will permit your readers to concentrate on your ideas, and may help you to give the impression that you know what you are talking about . . . My formula for good writing is simple: once you decide that you want to produce good writing and that you can produce good writing, then all that remains is to write bad stuff, and to revise the bad stuff until it is good.
(Marc Raibert)

This long quote discusses three important concepts.

What is good writing? Because your readers can forget about you and focus, instead, on your ideas, they will believe in your authority to discuss those ideas. They respect you because they can ignore you.What personal characteristics are necessary to produce good writing? You desire to write well, so you are willing to do the necessary work. You believe you can write well, so you know that the work will succeed.What is the work of writing well? Rewriting until the writing is great.