How to Make Writing a Lot Easier
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How to Make Writing a Lot Easier
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#2A few years back I did an internship at a gaming magazine and one of the editors gave me a great tip to make writing a lot easier:
"Just start writing. Write whatever you want but write and write and keep writing. Eventually what you want will appear on the page and you'll edit out the random blabbering".
Made a huge difference for me because my problem was the initial blank page.
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#3Writing is easy.
Writing legible, interesting, persuasive, succinct, informative, insightful, lucid, precise or revealing copy is more difficult.
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#4A few years back I did an internship at a gaming magazine and one of the editors gave me a great tip to make writing a lot easier: "Just start writing. Write whatever you want but write and write and keep writing. Eventually what you want will appear on the page and you'll edit out the random blabbering". Made a huge difference for me because my problem was the initial blank page.
Writing is hard, no matter how you frame it. There a native English speakers who may have an advantage because they can produce clever phrasing more easily. But I found that actual content (e.g. having to say something that matters) always beats clever phrasing, albeit you need a bit of both.
As a non-native English speaker, I usually require about 8 months straight (4hrs/day) to produce a full paper with ~8000 words. Note that this is after all research is done and all results are already available. It is a multi-iteration process. It is also critical that I accept not keeping parts for just an end in itself (e.g. not throwing away text that took time to produce): If it does not support the main message of the paper, it gets removed eventually. Clinging to text was my biggest mistake as a beginner because it effectively prevented succinct synthesis (btw. this is mentioned in the blog post, too). Having mentors that point to redundant text helps.
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#5Reading would be easier without the paywall
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#6Reading would be easier without the paywall
I already have muscle memory for medium articles.
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#7Reading would be easier without the paywall
If you disable JavaScript through uMatrix or some similar plugin you can read the full article.
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#10Writing is easy. Writing legible, interesting, persuasive, succinct, informative, insightful, lucid, precise or revealing copy is more difficult.
>Writing is easy.
Try writing about yourself, or some past experience and try to make it as engaging as it was for you - like a writing about a job you had in the past.
I don't find it easy.