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- From: aimsm@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Malcolm Maxwell)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Rules of Thumb
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.133717.12304@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:37:17 GMT
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- Reply-To: aimsm@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Malcolm Maxwell)
- Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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- In article <1993Jan21.150128.20782@zeus.ieee.org> dprezios@ep.ieee.org writes:
- >One rule of thumb I like (and I don't remember how I came to abide by it)
- >is to never show a rough draft to anyone. Something about too many opinions
- >too early on....
-
- I agree, although my reasoning is that if I'm going to be torn apart by
- critics, I want to be torn apart for good reasons, not for things I
- was going to leave out of the final draft anyway.
-
- >Also, I try to get something on paper--WHATEVER it may be--
- >WHENEVER I feel motivated. Thus the value of keeping a journal.
- >Finally, if
- >I don't feel motivated , I type up some of those old handwritten scraps
- >(does anyone uses a pen and paper anymore?). [stuff deleted].
-
- Sure, papers still of great use. I've adopted a method Robert Prisig
- suggested in _Lila_, of keeping ideas on reference cards. This allows
- any amount of rearranging etc without the usual problem of an entry
- being encased in words as soon as you write the next one. It also
- allows the building up of related sections, with the system as a whole
- being infinitely expandable in any direction.
-
- It also forces you to be concise about your ideas, with space on each
- card being limited. This might not suit everyone, but its a great time
- saver for me (I have a tendency to ramble).
-
-
- &')
-