Writing When Your Reader is Watching You Write

After reading about DeltaDB, I was inspired to experiment with building a process by which I could show someone what my writing process was like, in the same way I used to sit next to someone building software and watch them type every keystroke or invoke every shortcut. Unfortunately, I won’t be available to sit next to you if you have questions about the approach I take (what my actual thoughts are) when writing and editing this piece, but I think it could provide some insight into the messy, typo-prone, unstructured process that I follow to put words on a “page”. It’s a little nerve-wracking to know that every pause, typo, keystroke and mid-piece edit I make here will be shown to the reader of the final draft. But it also feels more honest. Reading the final draft of a written work hardly captures the effort and energy the author (and maybe even their editor) invested in getting the writing to its final state. In a world where AI slop has inundated most of the internet, I consider…