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The best tip (which I hadn't heard before) - do your planning, then throw it away (or hide it from view). If you look at the plan while you are writing, you wil
by wisty 15y ago
The best tip (which I hadn't heard before) - do your planning, then throw it away (or hide it from view). If you look at the plan while you are writing, you will try to correct the plan, and the context switching will slow you down.
If the plan is really high level, or embedded (i.e. topic intros), maybe that's different.
- battlebee 15y agoWhile I see the value of that advice (longer flow periods), for academic or technical writing it is often impossible. It might work for fiction or punditry, but detailed analysis requires frequently looking to citations and notes.
- jseliger 15y agoThis does not work very well for me; if anything, I like to have an outline and miscellaneous file open. In fact, I meant to write a short post with screenshots of my current workspace embedded, but by accident I went away an hour ago and am back with a much larger post discussing many aspects of the article in question that just so happens to have some screenshots of the way I've been working embedded, along with explanations. Sorry! http://jseliger.com/2011/08/11/how-to-be-a-faster-writer-dont/ http://jseliger.com/2011/08/11/how-to-be-a-faster-writer-don...