How to write well
In the absence of my own thoughts on how to write well, I've compiled a list of web articles:
Paul Graham thinks you should Write like you talk and has further thoughts on Putting ideas into words.
Robert Heaton posted a blogging style guide in 2018 as a list of dos and don'ts.
Hacker News has thoughts on How to Edit Your Own Writing, an article in the New York Times.
Ben Kuhn explains Why and how to write things on the Internet.
Michal Zalewski focuses on the utilitarian aspect of Writing at work and makes the case that You should write more.
Thomasaurus maintains a Writing tips page.
Julia Evans compiled a list of Patterns in confusing explanations for technical concepts and Some blogging myths.
Bert Muthalaly has a procedure for writing that's pretty simple: keep good notes and the writing will fall out from that.
The nonsense of style: Academic writing should be scrupulous not stylish (and comments from Hacker News).
Writing, Technically is a podcast episode (with transcript) that focuses on technical writing for programming documentation.
John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons" is an interview with advice that Tom Chritchlow boiled down to getting to a first draft as quickly as possible.
Eric Bailey gave some advice on publishing writing on the web in his 100th post.
Blogging Advice For People Exactly Like Me describes what works for Brian Chen.
Alexey Guzey explains Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now.
Devon Zuegel has some Advice on writing.
Robert Heaton has thoughts on How to write better sentences.
I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me is an irreverent, blogging-focused piece on writing for engagement.
David Nicholas Williams has a few Tips for making writing more fun, which might help the writing flow more easily and feel less forced.
Dynomight provides advice specifically for writing on the internet.
The Pudding tries to answer What makes writing more readable? with an interactive "plain language" toggle on each paragraph in the article.
Mark Pollard focuses on persuasive writing in How to explain an idea: a mega post.
Gergely Orosz had engineering-centric advice in Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer, mostly around simplifying and distilling ideas to their most concise form.
John McPhee's Draft No. 4 discusses writer's block.
John Elder Robison has Thoughts on Writing about why writing is useful for a business, even if no critically-acclaimed work comes from it.
Tor Håkon relates some simple Writing Tips and explains why Writing is Hard.
Heinrich Hartmann has specific advice on Writing for Engineers
Marc Brooker feels that Writing Is Magic and to focus on Writing For Somebody.
Chris Stjernlöf analyzed The AWK Programming Language to start Learning from Kernighan on technical writing.
Henning Schulzrinne points out some Common Bugs in Writing.
Alex Nixon thinks It's time to start writing.
Geoffrey Pullum has Fear and Loathing of the English Passive.
Scott Alexander gave some non-fiction writing advice back in 2016 with some useful hints about mimicking his particular brand of documentary writing.
Ben Congdon summarized writing with What Are You Trying to Say?.
I also want to read some books on writing.