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My writing process is nothing if not thrillingly honest.

4 comments
  1. Andy Vann says: December 1, 20095:03 pm

    That’s just the “presto” moment when all the magic happens. We don’t need to know about that. It would just ruin the mystery for us.

  2. Lauren says: December 1, 20095:34 pm

    God, this. You are not alone!

    Not only do I do it in the middle of essays, but I once emailed an essay draft to my tutor with the footnotes still reading “[blah blah blah find out the page no. for this later]” and so on – her Feedback Face was interesting.

    • Steve G says: December 1, 20097:31 pm

      The double-asterisk thing is to stop me from leaving my in-text comments in anything other than the first draft – thankfully, a whole series of people will read a working draft before it hits any potential publishers. Someone will hopefully notice if I screw up. :)

  3. Dougal says: December 1, 20095:42 pm

    I see you are on step 2 of the Feynman Problem-solving Algorithm. :-)

    1. Write down the problem.
    2. Think very hard.
    3. Write down the answer.

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