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I enjoyed this thread on writing by @stevesi. I began serious writing in 2007, & was shocked by how difficult it was, & how transformative.https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/987028913363849216 …
To convey the experience, I once said hyperbolically to a friend: "I believe I could barely think before I began to write seriously". As the words hung in the air, I had quite a shock, as I realized I really believed it. Taking writing seriously made me a different person.
Early on, I asked a well-known science writer how many drafts he went through. He sighed, looked doleful, and replied "For the hard parts, sometimes 50 to 100". I commiserated, but was secretly relieved: no, my process wasn't irredeemably broken.
I'd written a lot before then (a book, 50+ research papers, & theses). But in 2007 or 2008 I began to write pieces that were transformative. Mostly because I cared so much that I was willing to rewrite and rewrite, gradually sharpening the ideas.
You were NOT serious while writing Mike&Ike?
Not at all by my later standards.
Great thread thank you for recommending. I was first exposed to this idea in @paulg's essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html and it was transformative. I have currently settled into something like "writing *a lecture(s)* is thinking".
Whether or not I actually give the "lecture", I find in explaining a topic to myself well enough to teach it, and then going back to understand it well enough to explain it to **someone else** is an incredibly clarifying experience.
yep it is but well worth the effort and pains.
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