This is probably one of the more tiring pieces of writing I have read in a while. What does that mean? I am actually learning something, it's supposed to be hard. Thanks for sharing!
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about this comment 😅 but I sincerely hope the article is at least a bit helpful 😃. It was hard to write for sure 🤗
It is great to see this framework evolve over time. I remember when you first wrote about it last year. This refined version is excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see your whole process written down. I know I’m an outlier on how I write, as I spend a lot more time in the “thinking” stage and organising things in my head, and then I write a “strong first draft”, which is always very similar to the final article. I’ve always written like this, including my PhD thesis, say
As much as I'm familiar with the concept of "vomitting out a crappy first draft," I still tend to get stuck during Step #3 when my inner editor kicks in and starts nitpicking. Sometimes, I can switch him off and get into the flow of just writing out the thoughts, so he can return later and improve stuff. But I often struggle to get through this without switching back and forth between writer and editor, and it's exhausting. Gotta work on that.
I feel you. This is why I do must of my first draft by talking instead of writing. I just record myself, use whisper, and then a minimal prompt that just removes filler words. Almost a 100% brain dump. Now if only I had an editor with that incorporated.
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I also tried this approach. I even have a Recorder app that came by default with my Google Pixel that transcribes the words automatically and does a pretty decent job of it. Then I tried stuff like throwing the text/brain dump into an LLM and asking it to extract key points and create an outline, but I still find that the process somehow ends up taking longer than just doing most steps yourself. Maybe it's a matter of letting go, but I just can't get myself to use most of AI's written input.
I have cases where that happens, I try two or three times from scratch and end up scrapping the whole thing and just sitting and writing straight from zero to the first draft. I think what happened is that I unconsciously did the outline in my head. That's why I treat this "framework" as a suggestion more than hard rules.
It's very well aligned with the framework for Critical Thinking I've developed of Knowlege Gathering, Logical Structuring, and Critique. Fundamentally, writing should BE critical thinking because it a way to form, unform, and reform ideas as you pointed out.
This is probably one of the more tiring pieces of writing I have read in a while. What does that mean? I am actually learning something, it's supposed to be hard. Thanks for sharing!
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about this comment 😅 but I sincerely hope the article is at least a bit helpful 😃. It was hard to write for sure 🤗
It's helpful. Just need some effort to read it all...
Haha that means I could have done better then 🤗
It is great to see this framework evolve over time. I remember when you first wrote about it last year. This refined version is excellent. Thanks for sharing.
This is the kind of post I always keep on "save" !!
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Great to see your whole process written down. I know I’m an outlier on how I write, as I spend a lot more time in the “thinking” stage and organising things in my head, and then I write a “strong first draft”, which is always very similar to the final article. I’ve always written like this, including my PhD thesis, say
Hey, if it ain't broken, don't fix it ❤️
Awesome framework!
As much as I'm familiar with the concept of "vomitting out a crappy first draft," I still tend to get stuck during Step #3 when my inner editor kicks in and starts nitpicking. Sometimes, I can switch him off and get into the flow of just writing out the thoughts, so he can return later and improve stuff. But I often struggle to get through this without switching back and forth between writer and editor, and it's exhausting. Gotta work on that.
I feel you. This is why I do must of my first draft by talking instead of writing. I just record myself, use whisper, and then a minimal prompt that just removes filler words. Almost a 100% brain dump. Now if only I had an editor with that incorporated.
I also tried this approach. I even have a Recorder app that came by default with my Google Pixel that transcribes the words automatically and does a pretty decent job of it. Then I tried stuff like throwing the text/brain dump into an LLM and asking it to extract key points and create an outline, but I still find that the process somehow ends up taking longer than just doing most steps yourself. Maybe it's a matter of letting go, but I just can't get myself to use most of AI's written input.
I have cases where that happens, I try two or three times from scratch and end up scrapping the whole thing and just sitting and writing straight from zero to the first draft. I think what happened is that I unconsciously did the outline in my head. That's why I treat this "framework" as a suggestion more than hard rules.
It's very well aligned with the framework for Critical Thinking I've developed of Knowlege Gathering, Logical Structuring, and Critique. Fundamentally, writing should BE critical thinking because it a way to form, unform, and reform ideas as you pointed out.
https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/do-you-really-think-critically