Walking not only produces a certain type of thinking, but perhaps even a greater amount. I certainly generate more posts than from sitting and thinking. So the current inability to get out and walk has been a real burden
I find the germs of posts come when I'm doing something (sometimes sitting through a sermon), but the actual writing and thinking through the matter--and researching it and finding I was wrong--requires sitting at the keyboard.
I somewhat agree. I have an idea, often from what I read or hear, and then I walk. I develop phrases to try and capture a thought, and constantly rework that as I compare whether the new phrasing actually fits any reality. I finish with a half-dozen phrases, half of which are somewhat fleshed out into paragraphs. They I sit down and write.
Dictating texts to myself is my new method. It is sort of working.
I find the germs of posts come when I'm doing something (sometimes sitting through a sermon), but the actual writing and thinking through the matter--and researching it and finding I was wrong--requires sitting at the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI somewhat agree. I have an idea, often from what I read or hear, and then I walk. I develop phrases to try and capture a thought, and constantly rework that as I compare whether the new phrasing actually fits any reality. I finish with a half-dozen phrases, half of which are somewhat fleshed out into paragraphs. They I sit down and write.
ReplyDeleteDictating texts to myself is my new method. It is sort of working.
Perhaps there's a trick to remembering paragraphs rather than phrases.
ReplyDeleteUpon further review, it would be more like a string of connected phrases than a paragraph.
ReplyDeleteCS Lewis could do whole essays in his head and ask his driver about certain passages, and then type it when he got home.
Walking seems to have worked well for Aristotle.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jesus
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