# Writing as translation and translation as commitment: Why is (academic) writing so hard?

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The piece uses translation and music as partial models for how writing forces implicit thoughts into explicit commitments that require practice to express clearly.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 15 June 2019

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 15 June 2019
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: academic-writing, translation, writing, learning.

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