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In 1961, Joan Didion wrote her famous “On Self-Respect” essay as the magazine was going to press.

Vogue assigned the topic to another writer, who failed to deliver.

The title engraved on the cover, she had to write not to a word or line count, but to an exact character count:

“I improvised a replacement in two sittings,” Didion said. “Each session an hour or two when the Condé Nast floors in the Graybar Building were deserted and the days pages were closed.”

Didion started working at Vogue in 1956.

For the five years before writing “On Self-Respect,” her first bylined piece for the magazine, Didion worked as an assistant researcher and editor, quietly developing her craft through various behind-the-scenes writing tasks: ad copy, photo captions, style notes, and other short-form textual elements.

“It was in these anonymous, minimal spaces,” writes biographer Evelyn McDonnell in The World According to Joan Didion, “that Didion learned how to master Hemingwayesque brevity, to use every word necessary—and not a single word more.”

During those years, working in those anonymous, minimal spaces, Didion got to work under Allene Talmey, associate editor and columnist at Vogue.

At the time, Talmey was more than 20 years into her writing career. Sensing Didion's eagerness to learn, Talmey would regularly give Didion practice exercises. Among others, Talmey would assign her to write a 300-word story, and when Didion submitted her 300 words, Talmey would tell her to pare it down to 50 words.

“We wrote long and published short,” Talmey said, “and by doing that Joan learned to write.”

Didion would recall Talmey telling her, “Run it through again, sweetie, it’s not quite there.” “Prune it out, clean it up, make the point.”

And so, on that day in 1961 when the “real writer,” as Didion referred to him, wasn't able to complete the “self-respect” piece in time, when Didion got her first opportunity to step out of those “anonymous, minimal spaces,” she had five years of practicing the task of writing to an assigned count—and not a single character more.

“That,” she said, “was what writing seemed to me then: a job of work done under pressure, a craft, but a craft that gave me inexplicable pleasure. It still does.”

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“It was at Vogue that I learned a kind of ease with words, a way of regarding words...as tools, toys, weapons to be deployed strategically on a page.” — Joan Didion

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