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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      ok. I'm going to turn off my phone and log out of Twitter. I'll be back in 5000 words written or 5 hours, whichever comes sooner. If you see me on here before 17:00 UK time ask me if I've written 5000 words yet.

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    2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      I have now written 5000 words (many of them were garbage, but that was expected behaviour).

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    3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      I actually only need 2000 words for the article this was for, but I was feeling supremely stuck on how to write it so I thought writing 5000 words of highly dubious quality on the subject and then attempting to extract a coherent article out of them would work better.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      This is a really interesting experiment and I look forward to hearing how it works out.

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    5. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      Will report back. It may be non-representative because this is for a subject that I know rather a lot about, so the main blocker was motivation rather than creation.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      I fairly often junk an early version of something and rewrite mostly from scratch, preserving small bits that seem OK. And I’m often aware while writing something that it’s not great and I may have to do that. And sometimes I explicitly think “this is just a throw-away version.”

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        2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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          The overwhelming majority of what I write is written in one sitting, with no more than about 1-3 hours passing between first word and clicking publish (or at least a finished first draft to send to beta readers). It works very well when it's viable at all, but sometimes it isn't.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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          For the past two years I’ve been supposedly writing a book, but it takes 3+ full days of re-reading it to get the structure back into my head, and two days away means it drops back out so I have to start over, and uninterrupted periods of >3 days have been rare; so slow progress.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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          I don’t recall having explicitly attempted to write a much-too-long throwaway version. But it certainly makes sense, inasmuch as it’s easier to stream-of-consciousness wordy text, and everything does shrink during editing.

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        3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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          Yeah a lot of this was very deliberately stream of consciousness. Certainly there's no overarching structure and it would be unreadable by anyone who is not me.

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        2. Petulant Fig Nemesis (Mark 11:12-14)‏ @mwotton 10 May 2019
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          i do this for both code and prose. seems to make a big difference having explicit "throw down a bunch of random crap that i think is relevant" and "make this make sense" stages.

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        3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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          It's frustratingly difficult to write a test suite for prose though.

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