Have you ever known that you wanted to write about something, but weren’t sure where to start? I’ve often experienced that when writing for this very blog. I’ll have a topic like programming or cooking that I want to share a thought about, and get stuck… starting. That’s one of the reasons I haven’t been blogging as often as I’d have liked to. In order to tackle this “writer’s block”, I’m going to try changing my blogging approach in three related ways: setting explicit writing goals, taking notes towards those ends, and not rushing the writing process. ...

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As a college student (and despite studying Engineering), I’m occasionally required to write paper for class. Sometimes they’re simply one-off papers that only need to be a page or two (like for my Ethics class), in which case it doesn’t really matter what I write the papers in or whether I back them up in any meaningful capacity. In theory, if the worst happened and I lost the file, I could rewrite it in a couple of hours and it wouldn’t be the end of the world. The lion’s share of the effort invested would have been on the ideas, and a similar paper could be rewritten in even less time. ...

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