Post by @olivia@scholar.social

Some notes on WRITING:

> Writer’s block […] usually comes from the perhaps wrongheaded notion that when I sit down to write that I just sit and it pours out. But even if it looks like that, that has no basis in reality: do not imagine if it looks easy and quick, that the process was easy or quick.

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writing — critical.computer

When it comes to writing, another huge topic and huge part of our skill set like reading, I feel more is said. Or at least I have read more about how academics and related scholars do it. The famous writer’s desk concept and related photos that you sometimes see floating around are what inspired me to buy (and even extend) my large desk, buy more than one keyboard and mouse based on trial-and-error until I found the combinations I like,...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia@scholar.social 56 min. ago

> Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that “because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way.” [What seems] like “she just picked up the keyboard and wrote six paragraphs” has been preceded by weeks [...] of thinking about, and especially reading about, this issue.