Re: slow writer

Subject: Re: slow writer
From: Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:11:02 -0500


diotima,

If you have a process that works for you, and you get good results,
don't sweat it.

I do the opposite of what you do - I write fast at first, then slow
down towards the end.

When I start work on a new project, I write reams of stuff that I wind
up not using... working in "brain dump" mode, writing as quickly as I
can, as I learn to use a new product or process. But this compulsive
note-taking and (almost) free-writing seems to be necessary to what I
do... priming the pump, if you will.

Then, like you, about halfway through I tend to have my "eureka" or
"aha" moment, and I can develop a sensible structure for the
documentation, cherry-pick carefully from the aforementioned reams of
stuff I've written, and finish fleshing out the documentation.

This often strikes other writers as crazy. "Why don't you work from a
structured outline from the very first day?" The only answer I've
ever been able to come up with is, until I explain to myself what it
is that I'm looking at, I don't know what I'm going to write.

--
Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
http://enrevanche.blogspot.com

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