![]() ![]() ![]() My goal is to have about 600 - 1000 words initially. Creation 2 –3 hour chunk to flesh out this original tiny idea.Typically, this is a sentence or a paragraph. This start of an article is sometimes placed into the working folder then fleshed out at a later date. Inception I’ll start a small note inside of /working folder.It’s lightweight and infinitely extendible. Sublime Text is my favorite editor for development and Markdown.I have the analysis tool open-this gives me a word count and rough complexity metrics. This feedback loop has been the most seemless of all the editors I had experimented with. Marked is a Markdown tool (by Brett Terpstra) that previews live with every save.This lets me jot ideas down quickly without the formatting necessary in other formats. Markdown is a language for writing in plain text that converts to beautiful html.Why do I use git for writing? It gives me the ability to easily pare what articles are published and not yet published, I have nice versioning, and best of all, github displays Markdown beautifully. It provides a nice interface between changes by individual developers and changes to be shared with a group. Git is typically used by developers to share and collaborate on code.Screenshot of my writing environment with Marked / Sublime Text This article is documentation on what’s worked recently and follow-up experiments I’m going to conduct on learning how to write better and more consistently. Learning a new skill is hard and uncomfortable. However, there have been weeks that I’ve written nothing. In recent months, I have been writing consistently about 6–8 hours a week, most weeks. Habits that reduce decisions into processes are critical to long term success. The art of creating process is essential for producing great work in the long term. Jamie is a science fiction author and developer at RAND, who has written consistently about processes for writing and evernote for years. Jamie Todd Rubin is an inspiration with detailed articles on his craft of writing. Writing this workflow is a means to increase the quality and the frequency with which I publish. I have had problems with writing cadence and writing over the past few months. I’m writing this partially as documentation of how to structure a writing project in the same way as a software project. This article is about the steps I’ve taken to iterate upon my writing workflow. ![]()
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