These skills are becoming ever more important. From >>>/sw/ continuing abandoned endeavors to readers essaying about neat books buried/panned being deemed anti-social for whatever reason by established entities: it seems like it's gonna get harder to absorb audiences from more normalfag pools with how walled the popular centralized and decentralized social media has become. On that 'spreading the prose' note I read one very fun book by some guy posting pages and copypasting passages. The old 'beating the hump' and reading the content of interest while blundering into and dealing with problems when attempting to write seems like a good enough method for me: I find it tough as nails but I need to develop the discipline and the amount of poisoned wells is great enough to play it safe.

>>55 Hopefully this isn't too bad of a necro post, but I like me some essays. Literally how I do some longer arguments in my head and why I really fucking hate commies. Anyway, a good way to learn about essays is reading essays that aren't shit and aren't as stupid and formulaic as those in high school. Those are OK for getting you up to speed at least. Check out this nice fellow by the name of Paul Graham. Some of his essays are pretty cool. Some I don't like (fuck the quadrant lmao). Here's a couple of very nice ones to get started: What you can't say - Very appropriate considering this website and the ever increasing sphere of doom that is mob justice. http://paulgraham.com/say.html The Age of the Essay - How does he do it? He sorta explains here. http://paulgraham.com/essay.html