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Re: slow writer

Subject: Re: slow writer
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:17:38 -0800


Are you actually *writing* more slowly, or is it simply that in the early
phases of a project you are able to spend less of your time actually
writing, or that you have to do more rewrites as the product changes
again and again during its early development? It seems perfectly natural
to me a the project will progress more quickly during the later phases,
since the product being documented is (or should be) more mature and
going through changes that are less radical and everyone involved has
become more familiar with the product and how its various functions
impact one another.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- From: "diotima" <diotima -at- myway -dot- com>

i do know that the speed at which i write changes from beginning to the end of the project. i am my absolute slowest in the beginning. i feel almost overwhelmed with all the possibilities, all the demands. i crawl. i space out. i think. i consider. i plod along. but then, wonderfully, usually half way into it, it's like suddenly i can see it. i see how it's all going to come together, i see beyond my nose and all the way down the street. the text to come is so obvious, it simply falls out of what i've already written. i speed up dramatically. at this point, it's almost giddying. and usually by this time, because i've "wasted" so much time in the beginning, the deadline for what i'm writing is almost impossibly before me and i barely get it in under the wire. and when the praise comes, i think, gee whiz, it could have been even better if i'd had just one more day!



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