#slowwriting — Public Fediverse posts
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Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity
#NoteTaking
#PKM
#Zettelkasten
#BookWriting
#SlowWriting https://writingslowly.com/2025/06/18/what-i-learned-from-bob.html -
Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity
#NoteTaking
#PKM
#Zettelkasten
#BookWriting
#SlowWriting https://writingslowly.com/2025/06/18/what-i-learned-from-bob.html -
Slow is a quality, not primarily a speed. Even IT pundits are finally getting the message:
"We urgently need to consider how we might make all of our key IT infrastructure “slow”." -
Slow is a quality, not primarily a speed. Even IT pundits are finally getting the message:
"We urgently need to consider how we might make all of our key IT infrastructure “slow”." -
I’ve been obsessed with looseness lately, allowing myself to fall into my body’s processes and what it wants to do re: #writing versus what I want it to do. And it’s been a mostly rewarding, sometimes difficult journey. One of the tools I stumbled upon along the way—that works beautifully with my bursts-of-creativity process—is the mind map. It’s structured chaos, and it makes my #slowwriting brain very happy.
https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-map-of-your-mind -
I’ve been obsessed with looseness lately, allowing myself to fall into my body’s processes and what it wants to do re: #writing versus what I want it to do. And it’s been a mostly rewarding, sometimes difficult journey. One of the tools I stumbled upon along the way—that works beautifully with my bursts-of-creativity process—is the mind map. It’s structured chaos, and it makes my #slowwriting brain very happy.
https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-map-of-your-mind -
@kjcharles Tell me that when you started out writing your Words Per Day stat was in the hundreds. Lie if you have to, but give me hope.
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In which I draft an #introduction, delete it all apart from "I", restart, pause for tea, write a little, order a book on a random side-topic, think of a neat line for my WIP **, notice an anachronism, google it, disappear down a website for an afternoon, twoot about a detail I've discovered, pause for tea, talk a lot, write a little...
In which I prove that I need no #introduction to #SlowWriting #procrastination #JamTomorrow
** #romance #administration #London #Year1819 #C19 #EastIndiaCompany
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In which I draft an #introduction, delete it all apart from "I", restart, pause for tea, write a little, order a book on a random side-topic, think of a neat line for my WIP **, notice an anachronism, google it, disappear down a website for an afternoon, twoot about a detail I've discovered, pause for tea, talk a lot, write a little...
In which I prove that I need no #introduction to #SlowWriting #procrastination #JamTomorrow
** #romance #administration #London #Year1819 #C19 #EastIndiaCompany
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@AlexJaneWrites there's an author I really like & admire & she posts things like, "I wrote 4000 words before breakfast." I feel as if we live in different universes and I'm not good enough for hers.
A good day for me is about 300 or 400 words. That's all. Each word feels as if it had been chipped out of rock. I'll go & do the ironing sometimes to get away from my shame at being so unproductive.
So if there's a #SlowWriting movement, sign me up!
