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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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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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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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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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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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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It's frustratingly difficult to write a test suite for prose though.
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