Strong upvoted: This is great! This post’s form as a transcript made it engaging to read, and I feel like I learned from reading it.
In particular, both “rewriting to catch the flow” and “practicing the ability to expand/collapse all the nodes in the mental workflow” are interesting ideas I’d like to try in the future.
In general, the whole post synthesizes some different ideas I’ve heard about writing in an informative way: (sort of a topic dump) Writing as talking, thinking about the audience, writing down ideas for future expansion, rewriting effectively, noticing (both when a sentence isn’t “perfect” yet, and whether you just believe a sentence vs. knowing it’s true), and practicing writing as a long term habit (and therefore short term improvement might not be significant).
Strong upvoted: This is great! This post’s form as a transcript made it engaging to read, and I feel like I learned from reading it.
In particular, both “rewriting to catch the flow” and “practicing the ability to expand/collapse all the nodes in the mental workflow” are interesting ideas I’d like to try in the future.
In general, the whole post synthesizes some different ideas I’ve heard about writing in an informative way: (sort of a topic dump) Writing as talking, thinking about the audience, writing down ideas for future expansion, rewriting effectively, noticing (both when a sentence isn’t “perfect” yet, and whether you just believe a sentence vs. knowing it’s true), and practicing writing as a long term habit (and therefore short term improvement might not be significant).