When I began writing seriously, I was surprised by the difficulty I had in writing the truth. I don't mean I was dishonest. I mean sentences & paragraphs are weirdly squirrelly things. They rarely say quite what I believe. Sometimes that remains the case even after 20 revisions!
This is a very interesting idea. I walk to achieve something similar. Perhaps I should walk more.
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I think I can relate to that. I wld try to spend at least 1hr walk (in countryside) a day, and 2+ hrs/day doing nothing but just staring out the window at trees :) But I think YNH means smth more structured & permanent. His specific example was smth among the lines of (my words):
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imagine i want to write abt Z in Roman Empire, I think first I have to discuss Y for Z to make sense, but I can't talk abt Y w/o mentioning X. Next thing you know I have a whole chapter on Romans. That wont do, I need to be able to say everything I need abt the Romans in 1 page.
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