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Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social |
Also: the act of reading compresses the act of writing temporally. I mean, we typically read at 200-400 words per minute, but we create at more like 1000-2000 words per day: 5-10 minutes' reading. That hour you spent sweating over a paragraph? Is just 30 seconds to your reader.
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Jean-Marc Liotier
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Creation, including graphics, music, writing and programming is asymmetrical with consumption. From the point of view of a consumer ignorant of the creative process, that asymmetry trivializes creation.
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Isha
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I can spend days mulling over the choice of a word...
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Public Universal Ally
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tip: try writing bad then you can skip the slow bits
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Y Lee
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I know this wasn't directed to me, but I'd like to interject that I read at pretty much the same speed silently as I do aloud, so there's no way I can read that fast. I think this is why I personally may be going on about language. I like the flow of the sentences and appreciate an author's efforts.
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict
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I feel sorta bad when I drink down a whole book in less than a day. But I do reread.
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Liam Proven
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> we typically read at 200-400 wpm Good hypothetical gods, really? People read at just speaking speed? Feck. I mean, that explains the rash of video sites, but that means the delta between typical & speedreaders is bigger than I thought. I do about 1000wpm baseline, IIRC, & 2-3x that at a push.
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Dan Moore
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This is why I read many different authors. I love them all. But their work over months is a long evening of reading. I used to write technical documents for work. Different. But the same in that it takes more time to write than to read.
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Dave Hutchinson
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I will confess to feeling slightly torn when someone tells me it’s taken them a weekend to read something it’s taken me more than a year of hard work, despair and undiluted rage to write. I mean, I suffer for my art, and so should everyone else.
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