This feels petrifying (I’m basically looking at 47 blank pages instead of the usual one), but also I’m incredibly excited about it.
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I can see it all, now, for the first time ever. I see a chronological spine, interspersed with excursions in all sorts of fun directions.
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Tell me you wouldn’t read a book with chapters named: “Mr. Kildall goes flying” “Sixty monkeys per second” “Accidental Vulcan nerve pinch”
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Writing, writing, writing… It’s like the biggest puzzle I ever tried to solve. This is example metadata for a chapter I just finished.pic.twitter.com/onbkSoUpj2
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The chapter about arrow keys has Moon landing in it. The one about keylogging will start with Sully landing the plane in the Hudson.
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This has been of my favourite parts of writing so far – making the kinds of connections I suspect no one’s made before.
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Just finished a chapter about IBM PC and IBM PCjr keyboards, and feeling so incredibly F ecstatic about it. (F as in Model F, of course.)pic.twitter.com/qh9N7dOeJe
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I feel no one told it this way – from Gary Kildall hopping onto his plane, to a fateful conference where reporters mocked the mighty IBM.
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Also, tell me this right here is not some serious Pulitzer Prize stuff.pic.twitter.com/ySQu4tBiSu
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These two extremes I found the most exciting parts of writing so far, fun moments among hours that sometimes don’t feel like fun at all…
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…one is assembling a puzzle (book) made of puzzles (chapters) made of puzzles (sections) – while allowing the pieces to shape the whole…
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…and another one is, once in a while, writing a sentence that feels like it belongs in a book. And then realizing *I* wrote it.
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Like this one sentence, which perhaps makes little sense without context, but you have no idea how proud I am of these nine words.pic.twitter.com/oiNjqw2jL5
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