How Bestselling Author Austin Kleon Writes: Part Two
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
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How to Be a Better Writer
I'm a simple tools guy, you know, almost to a fault. I like fine point Sharpies and I picked up my friend Clive Thompson's Palomino black wing pencils that are so, I like to sharpen open. And I love to use them as for marginalia when I'm reading. So what I'll end up doing is I'll just sit there and sniff the pencil while I'm reading these,. you know, Palomino pencils. "You have to have a kind of ruthlessness with your tools," he says.
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