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Do you find it easier to explain things by speaking? If so, get yourself a dictaphone (or use an app that does the same). Record everything you want to say, sp

Do you find it easier to explain things by speaking? If so, get yourself a dictaphone (or use an app that does the same). Record everything you want to say, spoken out loud - it doesn't matter if it's disjointed or informal, you can fix that later. Then play it back and type it in. If it helps, imagine you're explaining things to another person (or a rubber duck) when you're doing the talking. Your only task then is to edit it to be more in written style than spoken style, which hopefully will be much easier. The only other thing I can think of is, maybe you are too stressed to write words down? From what you said, it sounds like you are very anxious about making a mistake.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
Maybe yes, I will try that. I wanted to try the OpenAI product that does speech to text so it may be a good opportunity! I won't solve the problem for diagrams which are a big part, but that's already good progress. > The only other thing I can think of is, maybe you are too stressed to write words down? From what you said, it sounds like you are very anxious about making a mistake. Not really. I am stressed because I don't make progress, and while I still hit the deadlines it's making it tight. I don't hesitate to go back and correct, or even delete entire parts. It's not really about the content, more about the format. As an example, I used this document as a reference to write another one last week: https://i.imgur.com/nWzlXf9.png https://i.imgur.com/nWzlXf9.png (blurred for privacy, sorry) and all that I will see is the red and blue underlines that I have to fix before starting to write (even though it's only a reference that I haven't written).