I don't agree! The problem with writing is that there's no upper bound on how good you can/want to be, so you're constantly in transition between conscious and unconscious competence, but as soon as you've made that transition you find new things to improve.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @everytstudies
The trick to spoon free writing is satisficing: write less well than you are able to and find a way to be comfortable with that.
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I found it very helpful to have a second blog that's explicitly for low quality writing.
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The thought just fills me with an even greater sense of responsibility, I fear. Like, I don't want to waste effort.
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Would you find speaking into a recorder easier and just treating those as unpublished drafts? I don't do it often but I find it quite helpful when I do.
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Oh dear :) Then I would only be able to do it in private, and there goes 90% of my writing opportunities. If only I could record my internal monologue. I think the only answer is training to overcome that initial bump.
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Well the idea is that the audio version is a first draft that gets you over the high spoon cost of writing one, and you can then later turn it into written form.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @everytstudies
I’ve heard people suggesting various tricks for accomplishing the same with a keyboard. Some mechanism to make rereading and editing impossible during the first draft. White text on a white background, or vertically narrowing the window to a single line of text e.g.
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Whoops, sorry, I’ve now caught up to t=0 and see that this is irrelevant to
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I also do the working out of difficulties in background mode (hikes are especially good); but also find that some conceptual structures are too large for that. Paging The Eggplant into RAM takes three days of intensive work (which is why there’s been zero progress in a year)
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Replying to @Meaningness @everytstudies
Yeah, this is really only a technique that works for blog post length things, or isolatable fragments of a larger work.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @everytstudies
The Eggplant has extraordinarily dense internal connectivity. Much more anything else I’ve written or probably even read. It’s fully linearized now, but making the back and forward pointers seem transparent for the reader is the challenge.
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