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I'm slow too... but nobody has complained yet. For stuff I know little or
nothing about, I don't even 'try' to write anything at the beginning. I find
there has to be a certain conceptual load before things start to crystallize
out. Research and analysis is what belongs at the beginning stages ...
you'll look busy enough looking things up, trying it out, sorting, making
notes and keeping track of references and screenshots, etc.
A really great book is "Writing Analytically" by David Rosenwasser and Jill
Stephen (Harcourt Brace, 2000) It describes exactly this process... and it
really doesn't matter the type of writing.
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Laurel Hickey
2morrow writing & document design
lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca http://www.2morrow.bc.ca
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Subject: Re: slow writer
I can't remember where I heard this (and Google searches seem to ignore %
signs, and are therefore not very helpful), but I do know it was a writing
class of some sort. The teacher said that typical writing is 90% planning
and only 10% actual writing. That makes sense with what you're describing,
and it's what I find when I write, too.
Is slow writer a description you've ascribed to yourself, or have you heard
it from employers/managers, too?
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