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Writing Hack: Embrace the Chaos

  What I’m thinking Image credit: AZ Quotes Eh, so disorder isn’t always a bad thing.  This is context-dependent. Do not go and topple tables and fling whips and scatter people and say you had my backing.  You know how a brain usually brains. You picture a process. It has a beginning, a middle, an expected end. It’s logical. Yet when you go to work on it, you may not want to go in the order it presents itself.  Or it’s just me?  I had a writing task. Mentally, I’d split it into 5 or 6 parts. Started writing it. Shut down. Went away. My brain was only focused on getting down that fourth part. Initially I wasn’t leaning toward it, because I thought if I did it, the likelihood that I’d do the rest, on account of maybe I’m avoiding those parts because I don’t find them as fun, would greatly reduce. Turns out that after riding the thrill of getting Part 4 out, another part was eager to tumble out. They all were. I think Part 1 was what I completed last.  Yes, it...