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2021-11-26 "It comes to be like a proper column when I adjust it by changing the position of figures and sentences" [長年日記]

"I don't know where to start" is pretty common.

In my case, it's my monthly column manuscript.

For now, draw as many charts and tables as I can think of, arrange them in a row, and pour text in between them.

Let me be frank.

I'm working on the text without having any idea of how it will turn out.

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However,

"It comes to be like a proper column when I adjust it by changing the position of figures and sentences"

This is the miracle of the writing process in the computer age.

"How did people create materials and works of art when there were no computers?" Just thinking about it makes me respect them more.

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If there's one piece of advice I can give to someone who has trouble with writing, I say to them,

"First, write a hundred lines of ridiculous, bullshit, logic-defying text"

After that, take the text apart and reconstruct it.

The most important thing is to publish your work on the Internet, even if it is not completed.

It is important to realize that you are being ridiculed and laughed at on the other side of the Internet.

In fact, in this diary, after I wrote the "first line," I just wrote random sentences and rearranged them.

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If someone claims, "I don't know about Ebata, but I can write in an orderly fashion from the beginning," I don't believe them, and if that were true -- I hate that person.