The first million words are the hardest.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1199206638458036224 …
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"What, no, that couldn't possibly..." Look, I told you you weren't going to like the answer, but this is descriptively accurate for approximately 90% of my written output between 2k and 25k words, including the pieces with the best business results and which I like best.
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How long are the editing processes
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Typically, 45 to 90 minutes total; outliers closer to 5 minutes and “a few days” when e.g. I need emotional distance from a topic. (The post about business in Japan took me four days total, one to write and three days to tone down a bit.)
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Oh yeah no this makes sense. Mine involves more scribbled notes to myself during the mulling stages and further gaps between writing for additional mulling (necessary when writing something as long as a book), but it rings true.
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i do think knowing this will help ppl because they imagine writers just Sit Down And Write, or possibly they write an outline then perfectly follow it it just can’t be copied & pasted into someone else’s life is all
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This is very close to my process. I can only talk it out if I’m walking, so the first audience for every post is Ringo the chihuahua.
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very similar to my process
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Oh neat I have a similar process heh.
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A while ago someone asked me how to write a technical proposal, and it was basically blank editor window -> fugue state -> proposal, but they didn’t find that helpful???
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With "Voice Typing" as a feature in Google Docs. You can rant at a computer; then, pick out the good pieces and make that into a proposal.
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