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Lots of good advice already (except there are better sources for writing style advice than Strunk & White). Here's one I and my linguist wife like: Write on pa
by larsrc 4y ago
Lots of good advice already (except there are better sources for writing style advice than Strunk & White). Here's one I and my linguist wife like:
Write on paper first.
Paper is more immediate and has fewer distractions, fewer ways to go back and edit at once, and leaves a bit more time to think. It doesn't require looking at a screen, which you probably do enough of already.
Sure, typing it up is an extra step, but it can be a good editing step. Having edited (to the best of my ability) some of my wife's writings, I have been able to correctly guess when she wrote directly into the computer simply by the writing being less coherent.
- maxekman 4y agoVery true that we sit by our screens way too much. Any reasonable work away from it is probably for the best. On this note I would like to share a really good tip (but slightly out of topic) that I got in the comments on some HN post some time ago; don’t use your phone or Internet until late morning, or at least after having really dug in to work for the day. This really helps to focus on the work at hand and avoid distractions.
- larsrc 4y agoGetting into "work mode" really helps. I did a similar thing during my Ph.D. studies - no reading email or news or gaming until lunch time, only work. After lunch, all options were open, but I then had work so swapped in that I kept on working.