Avoid Sounding Like a Dumbass With This Simple Trick

How To Learn Anything Without Wasting Time

John Ilho
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readOct 29, 2023

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Photo by Rita Morais on Unsplash

As writers, we’re constantly in trouble.

I don’t know about you, but I spend hours double-checking everything. I aim to be as realistic as I can with my fiction.

So when I decided my 12-year-old protagonist would be a master distiller’s apprentice and…

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I’m a former head chef turned full-time writer. I know, right? I, too, thought my mom had raised me better than this.