writing process
- General heuristics & practices
- How to begin a writing block? (draft as of August 27th, 2021)
- Remove distractions: close twitter & chats
- Open up the roam graph and start poking around
- Elaborate on whatever feels like it wants elaboration
- Don't:
- start by trying to edit something for publication unless that feels really exciting
- start with a blank page trying to write on a preset topic
- .......I still don't know how this will eventually lead to publishing things 😅
- but I broadly think that if I can consistently make these writing blocks feel really good, then many of them will lead to scheduling a showtime, which will lead to things getting published
- and/or showtimes might come from something completely other than writing blocks, like scheduling a showtime from a tweetstorm or something
- my showtimes are definitely feeling inhibited by feeling like I should post my blog posts in a particular
6 linked references
May 30th, 2026
- writing process - deal with the strongest argument first
- > The main way I get stuck in writer's block is when I haven't dealt with the strongest argument against my position head on as early as possible.
And because I haven't, I have to dance around with what I'm trying to say so as to not active the rebuttal.
May 16th, 2025
- open with the animating puzzle/story that I set out to solve
February 16th, 2021
- finding these inspirational, re writing process / Tech for removing friction for writing
