Part of the problem is different expectations on the quality of writing vs talking.
If you would just write word-by-word what you say, it would often look like a gibberish. And we happen to have higher standards for written word than for spoken word (see transcript of Trump’s speach). And we intuitively know that, hence the resistance to writing.
The big realization is that writing what you said is often good enough, and even if not, it is a good start, because you can edit and refine.
That’s certainly true. But at least for me it doesn’t seem to be a very big factor, because when I reorient to explaining something to a person and then find it easier, it’s very often also over text.
Perhaps these things apply at different levels. The difference between speech and writing seems to be at the sentence level: sentences that are grammatically incorrect or unfinished, filler words, etc. But the thing that gets organized in your head when you imagine talking to someone is the overall structure of the article: what do you mention first, what next, which examples to use, which tangents to avoid.
Transcripts of speech may look horrible, but it doesn’t take much work to polish them. The problem is when you write a grammatically perfect sentence, but then you don’t know what to write next.
So it makes sense to worry about the overall structure first, and the details later.
Part of the problem is different expectations on the quality of writing vs talking.
If you would just write word-by-word what you say, it would often look like a gibberish. And we happen to have higher standards for written word than for spoken word (see transcript of Trump’s speach). And we intuitively know that, hence the resistance to writing.
The big realization is that writing what you said is often good enough, and even if not, it is a good start, because you can edit and refine.
That’s certainly true. But at least for me it doesn’t seem to be a very big factor, because when I reorient to explaining something to a person and then find it easier, it’s very often also over text.
Perhaps these things apply at different levels. The difference between speech and writing seems to be at the sentence level: sentences that are grammatically incorrect or unfinished, filler words, etc. But the thing that gets organized in your head when you imagine talking to someone is the overall structure of the article: what do you mention first, what next, which examples to use, which tangents to avoid.
Transcripts of speech may look horrible, but it doesn’t take much work to polish them. The problem is when you write a grammatically perfect sentence, but then you don’t know what to write next.
So it makes sense to worry about the overall structure first, and the details later.