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David Perlmutter's avatar

The people who are advocating the fast-paced approach to writing are people who live in the self-centered impersonal bubbles the Internet has created and enabled since its creation. They did not grow up in an area when writing was created in a piecemeal way on assignment, but instead have deluded themselves into seeing writing as a daily chore- and consequently make their word more insipid in content to allow for the word quota to be met.

I never want to be that kind of writer, ever.

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Lauren Levato Coyne's avatar

Exactly!

I’m one of those obnoxious ones that spends a long time thinking churning then bangs out a 1500 word essay in two days. But the reason I can do that is because I’ve been writing for 30+ years, sometimes completely anonymously too, and now I know how I put it together. It requires a lot of staring off into space and baking before I even start to type. .

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