Separate Writing and Formatting

writing I have been thinking of Separate Writing and Formatting. This is an interesting discourse on the need to separate the acts of writing from the act of preparing to present. I agree with the premise. The Notion of a Canvas Conceptually I look on the task of writing as starting with a blank canvas. The words then come in and fill the page. I don’t think of how it will look on the final document. Most of the time, I don’t care for the output. It is going to remain a text document in the Org format or Markdown format, depending on what I need. The Different Types of Writing I do two kinds of writing. The first kind is stream of consciousness writing. I have some idea of the topic and I type. I don’t know the topic completely, or don’t know how I feel about it. It is the act of writing that sheds light on my opinions or feelings. It is a dialog with myself. There is not much structure to it, but there is the belief that structure will come. After I have exhausted my exposition of…