I think this is more true for some genres and types of writers than others. I’ve definitely met writers for whom a book was an optional extra or afterthought to action with a center of gravity elsewhere. Politicians’ books are often like that for example.
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If you've locked onto a schema, writing is the about the only way to exorcise it. Collins wrote 1000+ pages Sociology of Pholisophies just to use the schema he built in the first 100.
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..or the urge to showcase his absolutely puerile understanding of the forces of globalism.
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Having lived with authors: entirely trite and silly ideas are still must-write, sometimes. I can only imagine how bad it is with something you feel is truly important.
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Agree. Thomas is a self-confessed “explanatory journalist” — whose goal is to be a “translator from English to English. Where else would you document all those years of hard work? Knowledge is futile unless shared.pic.twitter.com/7sLDKC7kFB
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Hypothesis: yes.
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This message comes to us from the alternate reality where Friedman was aware of the existence of multiple Earths—only one of which was flat.
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wow. yes, this is good
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