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Before Breakfast

Write fast, edit slow

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Get your ideas down, then critique later

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

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0:30.1

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Good morning.

0:40.0

This is Laura.

0:42.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.7

Today's tip is to write fast and edit slow.

0:49.4

When you're working on a project that requires making something new, aim to create first without questioning yourself.

0:56.8

Then, once you've gotten your ideas down, you can be more disciplined about turning the something into something better.

1:06.0

This council to write fast and edit slow will be familiar to writers

1:11.0

who are often encouraged to treat writing and editing as separate processes. to write

1:12.9

and editing as separate processes.

1:15.0

They require different kinds of thinking.

1:17.5

Just as we can't really multitask

1:20.6

by checking email while running a conference call,

1:23.0

or better off writing and editing successively,

1:27.0

rather than oscillating between them in one sitting.

1:30.0

In her classic book, Bird by Bird, some instructions on writing and life, author Anne Lamotte urges

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