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I've been writing for more than two months now. I've written more than five posts, and I'm starting to think,
Am I... Am I writing the right thing?
I've always been confident that I'm not a bad writer, but after participating in GitHub, I found that it was not easy to write every time. The submission deadline approached faster than I thought, and I repeatedly crammed my writing out of habit. As a result, I kept putting off writing what I really wanted to write because I was busy, and I realized that the quality of my writing was getting worse and worse. When I had a vague idea that I needed to solve the underlying problem, I had the opportunity to listen to 글쓰기 세미나 by Sung Yoon, a GitHub administrator.
The seminar was very informative. I was able to get tips from the seminar participants, such as the purpose of writing, how to write, and the environment in which to write. I could relate to some of them, but it was more valuable because I was able to try out the mindset for writing.
Among them, I was most impressed by the point of Create a writing process and write according to it, and if it doesn't work, redefine it. In fact, there is an order to writing, and I had never really thought about defining my process, so it was refreshing.
In this post, I'm going to analyze my past writing process, determine what needs to be improved, and redefine my process.
So far, I've been embarrassingly winging it, but I've been writing a daily blog from 2008-2015, a marketing blog from 2013-2015, and a development blog since 2020, so I have some meta know-how, so I'm reminded that I had a routine.
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The Gathering ideas step was a new step I created when I started writing, and I think it's now 채택하길 정말 다행인 단계. I added it because I was worried about stressing over ideas every time, and organizing ideas as they came to me ahead of time helped me to not worry about them. (Organizing ideas into notations made it look much better).
And I was writing the post in the following order: Select a topic -> Define a table of contents -> Write the post and research -> Reflect (once or twice) -> Upload.
At first glance, I thought, "Hmm? This doesn't seem too bad."* But after a few iterations, I realized that I had a problem.
I think the most important thing was time. I couldn't accurately gauge how long it would take me to write on my own because I kept procrastinating, so I broke down the steps of the process and determined how long I expected each step to take.
I'm going to try to spend a little more time on the Objective Definition, because I personally found it harder to determine the scope of what I wanted to write about than it was to structure the post.
When I actually started writing, I realized, "Uh. I think that's a broad topic." There were some topics that I discarded because I was just relying on my intuition, and I didn't want to do that.
So I think I'm going to go through a process of gauging the size of the post and if it's too big, see if it can be a series or if I can break it down into smaller topics, so that I have a minimum number of posts to write, which will hopefully reduce the writing load :).
I'm also going to make sure that research (+ content creation) is done ahead of the writing process. Rather than doing research on the fly while writing, I'd like to do it ahead of time so that I can organize and structure the content of the post. (I'd also like to create content such as photos, drawings, videos, etc.
And finally, I set a time limit for each step.
**The defining the table of contents process is the most complicated, but also the least time-consuming. I figured that having a table of contents would give me some structure to the post, so I would spend less time breaking it up.
And Writing time is the longest step in the writing process, which is the most important and core step, but I thought I should spread the time out a little bit because I have to work in parallel with my job.(Maybe not even 3 days..lol) Still, if I do the research in the first week of the writing sprint, I can start writing on the weekend... 🙂
As for retreats, I plan to do them at least once and as much as possible. I think my writing is always alive, and in fact, I periodically reread my writing and retire it as I see the inscriptions, so I didn't limit the number of retirements as much as possible because I upload it and retire it to some extent. Instead, I limited myself to a few action items to do in the retirement phase.
In the process of redefining my process, I realized that writing is a strategy after all. I've been writing haphazardly without a strategy, and I think that's why I've been doubting myself about the depth of my writing.
This was a great opportunity for me to think more about the act of writing for myself. In the next post, I will try to write 글 쓸 때 정해두면 더 글이 잘 써지는 몇 가지 규칙 as well.
