In 2007, Scott Adams — creator of Dilbert — published a short blog post on writing. Naval Ravikant thought it was worth adding to his recommended reading list in the Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

There's one problem. Typepad, the blogging platform that hosted it, shut down permanently on September 30, 2025. The post disappeared with it.

I tracked it down through the Internet Archive. You can read the original here.

This post is my attempt to make it accessible — and to add something new.