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August 04, 2009
Writing Well: Not a work-life balance thing.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
And writing is not a "get-a-life" thing. Neither is lawyering--especially trial work. You bleed. You give blood. It's a privilege.
Good writing--like great lawyering--is difficult. There is too much going on in the work of writers and lawyers to make good work simple to do. If you think that either is easy, you are not doing it right.
Savor the brutality. Revel in the headaches. Stop trying to make great hard things easy. Resist the new mail-it-in culture.
Posted by JD Hull at August 4, 2009 11:59 PM