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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 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      I feel like if it takes 3 days to get the structure back in your head then you're writing it in an insufficiently modular way, but I admit I've no actual experience of writing a non-trivial book and this is mostly an opinion derived from writing software.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      That is absolutely the case! I’ve written only one finished book before (plus several unfinished ones, ugh) and this one is unique in that way. It’s trying to convey an understanding of the relationships among three things (reasonableness, rationality, meta-rationality) >

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      > that are densely linked, and the discussion of each aspect of each seems to have to explicitly make the connections to the other two (as well as explaining itself in its own terms). I’ve never come across anything like it, structurally. >

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      > I do worry that if *I* can’t keep the structure in my head, readers won’t be able to either. Which is part of why the linkages seem to want to be made so explicit. And why the text needs to be extremely clear and simple, which is a job.

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    10. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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      Maybe it would be useful for you to try some writing exercises in this space in the opposite direction? e.g. suppose you had to write no more than 500 words of up goer five prose (https://splasho.com/upgoer5/ ) about it, what would you write?

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 May 2019
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      Yes, I’m thinking that writing a short throw-away version of the chunk I’m working on is probably the right next move. (In fact, thinking this is what prompted me to reply to your original tweet…)

      9:09 AM - 10 May 2019
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        1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 10 May 2019
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          I'm deeply aware of the irony of sending you a highly systematized approach to problem solving in this context, but here you go: https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/ …

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