If starting a new chapter is consistently the worst part of writing, the feeling tonight is one of the best: I wrote most of a chapter today, and tomorrow is just riding the momentum and finishing it.
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As I’m nearing the completion of the first draft, the reference book piles loom higher and higher. (left = today, right = when I started)pic.twitter.com/6omisfp0Xb
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Trying to keep sane with a few related side projects that are not just about writing. Testing a brand new one. The next newsletter is going to be something special!pic.twitter.com/TP74JTpqXm
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80% done towards the first draft. Today’s chapter was awful: writing for eight hours through a headache, ended up with what feels like plodding, incoherent mess.
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But I suppose that’s good. Done is better than perfect, and so on. What’s awful to write is not always awful to read – plus, even if so, things can be made better in future revisions.
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!
Or, in other words…https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/929883213371232256 …
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jonny sun has a new book coming out in april!Verified account @jonnysunwrite it. the sooner u write it the sooner it will exist apart from u. the sooner u can spend days thinking its no good then come back to it realizing its better than u thought. the sooner u can convince urself some past version of u wrote it and now u can get to work updating itShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
In “Internet can still be good sometimes” news, I am having an email conversation with someone who actually used this 1959 Italian computer:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/931588975868837888 …
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He sent me the computer’s manual (!!!), which I’m trying to understand via Google Translate. (And already uploaded to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Olivetti-Elea9003-ManualeBaseDiProgrammazione …)pic.twitter.com/wdGFTgvOXN
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I’m now at ten chapters left (including the intro and outro!), so I am doing A GIANT COUNTDOWN TO THE FIRST DRAFT. I will celebrate each chapter with a PR stratagem of posting a selfie with a keyboard I own. I don’t really do selfies, ever, so this will be… new.
!!!pic.twitter.com/ciWtN399pd
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In each one will you look more tired than the previous one?
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Ha. I’m already tired. :·/
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