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scifibestfi | 3 years ago

> "A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what they thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of discovery." -Paul Graham

What is it about writing that makes it different than thinking?

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tony_codes|3 years ago

writing is a tool to help us think. Since we have limited active memory to think with, the words act like storage which helps organise thoughts and cover more ground