I once said that I’m bad at writing, and recently I realized it’s probably because my natural writing style is a strange kind of rambling, and it takes a significant amount of effort for me to polish it to the writing-style-I-want-to-have, and a part of me doesn’t want to publish the rambling writing style I have, because it stands out too much, at least in a LessWrong shortform feed.[1]
Within the past ~3-6 months, I did a bunch of stream-of-consciousness daily, as a huge part of how I think, and without external feedback on my writing style (like a blogger would get), I developed a bunch of internal jargon, and also possibly drifted away from what I mean by things in some respects, etc. Which means I don’t get to practice normal prose much, even if I still technically write a lot.
I once said that I’m bad at writing, and recently I realized it’s probably because my natural writing style is a strange kind of rambling, and it takes a significant amount of effort for me to polish it to the writing-style-I-want-to-have, and a part of me doesn’t want to publish the rambling writing style I have, because it stands out too much, at least in a LessWrong shortform feed.[1]
Within the past ~3-6 months, I did a bunch of stream-of-consciousness daily, as a huge part of how I think, and without external feedback on my writing style (like a blogger would get), I developed a bunch of internal jargon, and also possibly drifted away from what I mean by things in some respects, etc. Which means I don’t get to practice normal prose much, even if I still technically write a lot.
no, I’m not using the rambling style here, if you’re wondering