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Chamomile
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I found this in someone's signature recently:
This will make you sound erudite and focused in print, even if the real you is wandering from thought to thought like a 4 year old on acid.

-Username17
That sounds like it'd be a really useful hack for off-days. What is the "this" being referenced?
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Post by Orion »

"This" is his tactic for writing long documents. His advice is

--Outline or visualize a whole chapter or essay. You should know what sections you need. Write section headings and even paragraph summaries.

--Start writing the first section.

--When you run out of things to say about the first topic, stop writing. Even in the middle of the sentence.

--Start writing the second section

--Eventually, go back and finish all the sections.

--PROFIT
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Post by erik »

Here is da thread.
... and the full quote wrote:Something I often do is to simply write sentences or portions of sentences within a thought, and then when I get stuck simply drop down a line and begin another thought in another paragraph. It gets things done quickly because you cover a lot of ground without needing to spend time beating yourself up over thoughts you aren't ready to finish. Unfortunately you can sometimes forget to go back and finish something, leaving a sentence or concept at the end of a paragraph to

But one you've done that a few times, you've got a scaffold to hang your essay (or whatever) on. A basic argument may be 3 or five paragraphs, and if you just write an introductory sentence or two into each one you'll have places to hang further sentences as you think of them. Remember that while you read a work one sentence after another, there's no reason you have to write it that way. Every time you have a stray thought, or remember something you should have said, or whatever, you can take these thought fragments and file them in their appropriate paragraphs with the magic of word processing software. This will make you sound erudite and focused in print, even if the real you is wandering from thought to thought like a 4 year old on acid.

-Username17
That thread was full of good advice for the most part.
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