Writing like a sprinter

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about earlier is I can't wait to see the end product which is the synthesis and clarity Yes. of the idea in my head now on the page. Yeah, it's exciting. And sometimes it's frustrating I mean often times it's frustrating not even sometimes often times it's frustrating to like to to to have this idea and not be able to communicate it. And this is why I'm going to come back to something I said I don't find that trying to struggle through it is the way through. I really think you just got to stop and throw it away and start over. And the other thing I will often do is I'll just I'll talk. I'll just like I try to write the way I speak versus having a a writing style that is separate from that. And that makes it easier cuz then I can just go for a walk often go for a walk. I don't like actually like to sit still and think. I like to move and think. So I'll go for a

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walk and and and and just sort of like talk it out and go oh, that's the line. Like there's there's usually like a line that gets me or there's a combination of words or a title for the essay. So I need some hook that I have to find that brings me back to the confidence that I need to pull it off and I'll try again. Confidence that I need to pull it off. That's not what I was expecting you to say. Tell me more about that. What were you expecting me to say? A sense of direction. Okay. I I kind of see them almost as the same thing perhaps. I guess I guess that confidence almost implies a lack of confidence in in in what you were doing. So I don't think you meant it like that. I the the confidence for me in that moment is usually it's not the initial

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stab. It's the coming back to something that I couldn't pull off the first time. So if I'm working on an idea and I can't quite get it there I do need confidence to return to it because like the prevailing feeling at that point is like couldn't do it. Couldn't pull it off. So you need to overcome that I think. So when I go for a walk I'm kind of like in a way I'm spooling myself up to and I'm looking for the hook. I'm looking to find something that's going to work. And then I'll go you know what this is yeah yeah I think I got this again and then I'll sit down and I'll start writing again and it's got to flow and then then it does feel feels like It feels like confidence to keep going and finish the piece. So I don't know if it is or not but that's how it feels to How does editing show up? The the best editor I've ever worked with was on