Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity #NoteTaking #PKM #Zettelkasten #BookWriting #SlowWriting
Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity
#NoteTaking
#PKM
#Zettelkasten
#BookWriting
#SlowWriting https://writingslowly.com/2025/06/18/what-i-learned-from-bob.html
Slow is a quality, not primarily a speed. Even IT pundits are finally getting the message:
"We urgently need to consider how we might make all of our key IT infrastructure “slow”."
I’ve been obsessed with looseness lately, allowing myself to fall into my body’s processes and what it wants to do re: #writing versus what I want it to do. And it’s been a mostly rewarding, sometimes difficult journey. One of the tools I stumbled upon along the way—that works beautifully with my bursts-of-creativity process—is the mind map. It’s structured chaos, and it makes my #slowwriting brain very happy.
https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-map-of-your-mind
@kjcharles Tell me that when you started out writing your Words Per Day stat was in the hundreds. Lie if you have to, but give me hope.
In which I draft an #introduction, delete it all apart from "I", restart, pause for tea, write a little, order a book on a random side-topic, think of a neat line for my WIP **, notice an anachronism, google it, disappear down a website for an afternoon, twoot about a detail I've discovered, pause for tea, talk a lot, write a little...
In which I prove that I need no #introduction to #SlowWriting #procrastination #JamTomorrow
** #romance #administration #London #Year1819 #C19 #EastIndiaCompany
@AlexJaneWrites there's an author I really like & admire & she posts things like, "I wrote 4000 words before breakfast." I feel as if we live in different universes and I'm not good enough for hers.
A good day for me is about 300 or 400 words. That's all. Each word feels as if it had been chipped out of rock. I'll go & do the ironing sometimes to get away from my shame at being so unproductive.
So if there's a #SlowWriting movement, sign me up!
