Most of these notes come from work with graduate students and academic writers. I keep returning to the same claim because it keeps explaining what I see in workshops: writing is a way of thinking, and many writing problems begin as problems of structure, audience, scope, or confidence.
Start with Writing is the thinking or the longer Writing as thinking. Those two notes give the frame for the rest of this section.
For argument and structure, read The so-what problem, From description to argument, and Reverse outline.
For sentence-level work, read Sentence mapping and Concision as empathy.
For process, read The good-enough draft, Writer’s block as signal, and Revising for publication.
For source work and AI, read Paraphrasing as intellectual work and Writing with AI responsibly.
The fiction craft notes are a side path: Working notes on Jim Butcher, Working notes on Sanderson’s Lecture 1, and Working notes on Sanderson’s Lecture 2.