This article is bad advice. Any fool can string a few words together. Truly writing means re-writing.

Your first draft is always going to be ugly, raw data. Writing as a craft means taking that given set of words and processing it until it's concise and clear. Cut and replace until your argument is airtight.

And another thing: all writing is argument.

There are so many great essays about writing that are infinitely better than this - I'm surprised this gained so much traction on HN.

Here's one of my favorites by George Orwell: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...