I think both those CS software manuals and tutorials would be an incredible and helpful resource if you were able to find the time.
Trying to do any of this in one day (especially with a penalty for failure to meet the deadline) would feel like an unbearable compromise on quality. I understand that in some sense this is intentional—the purpose of the blogging marathon is not to write highest possible quality; it is specifically to produce quantity. Because if you have the internal drive for quality, this exercise can help you overcome some mental blocks, and then you will find your own way which includes both high quality and a greater quantity than you had before.
I suppose I had a different intention with this exercise. My problem wasn’t quantity—I can vomit out words easily and never understood the fear of the blank page. I was hoping, that through brute force writing for the public, I could somehow become a “better writer”.
Perhaps what I really need is a “edit-haven” 30 days of editing, redrafting, critiquing and analysis of my own and other writing with the intent of learning how to better edit myself?
Different courses for different horses, strokes for folks, as they say
I guess they do get some lessons at Inkhaven—and if any of them is reading this: describing those lessons for the rest of us would be a simple way to meet your daily quota. ;)
I am not an expert, but if I tried to give some advice, I would try this:
1) Train your inner LLM. Choose a blogger you want to emulate. Read three of their articles. Then try to write something in the same style. Don’t worry about the content, even if it is factually incorrect or whatever; it just has to look right. Compare the texts, notice the differences, try again. You could use an AI to point out the differences in style.
2) Think about different genres of writing, such as an essay, a manual, a poem, a political call; and try to write each of them. Again, an AI can generate the list for you.
3) Generally, you can ask AI to give you critique. It probably helps if it doesn’t know that the texts are yours. You do not have to follow the advice if you disagree.
I think both those CS software manuals and tutorials would be an incredible and helpful resource if you were able to find the time.
I suppose I had a different intention with this exercise. My problem wasn’t quantity—I can vomit out words easily and never understood the fear of the blank page. I was hoping, that through brute force writing for the public, I could somehow become a “better writer”.
Perhaps what I really need is a “edit-haven” 30 days of editing, redrafting, critiquing and analysis of my own and other writing with the intent of learning how to better edit myself?
Different courses for different horses, strokes for folks, as they say
I guess they do get some lessons at Inkhaven—and if any of them is reading this: describing those lessons for the rest of us would be a simple way to meet your daily quota. ;)
I am not an expert, but if I tried to give some advice, I would try this:
1) Train your inner LLM. Choose a blogger you want to emulate. Read three of their articles. Then try to write something in the same style. Don’t worry about the content, even if it is factually incorrect or whatever; it just has to look right. Compare the texts, notice the differences, try again. You could use an AI to point out the differences in style.
2) Think about different genres of writing, such as an essay, a manual, a poem, a political call; and try to write each of them. Again, an AI can generate the list for you.
3) Generally, you can ask AI to give you critique. It probably helps if it doesn’t know that the texts are yours. You do not have to follow the advice if you disagree.