Over the last 3 days, in between all of my other duties at
work, I have been working on an article. The content doesn’t matter for this post;
it was the process that intrigued me.
On Tuesday I didn’t have a feel for the angle or arc of the
story I was telling but I was on a short deadline so I wrote some all-purpose
paragraphs that could be used pretty much anywhere in the text. On Wednesday I attended an event that would
be the subject for the article which I had written in regards to in
generalities on Tuesday. After Wednesday when I sat at the keyboard Thursday morning
the story was more clearly defined and I wrote an introduction that set the
stage and moved some of Tuesdays paragraphs around to fill it out. I planned to tie it all together Thursday
afternoon after teaching but when I checked my email at lunch I learned that
the article was finished.
It was pretty cool. I
read the email and the finished draft and saw that all of the things I would
have had to work to say were said. The
other author saw the framework I had established, riffed off of some of the
melodies I had laid down and set the hook to real our audience in with a line
cast by the rhythm of our shared experience at Wednesdays excursion. It was like writing in jazz and it was cool
man.
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