Re: [tw5] [Outreach] Communicating to writers the benefits of TW -- #21 FUTURE TIDDLERS

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Basically, writers are more interested on content than mechanism. I often 
have hot sweats over whether I should include Bucket's Theorom or just go 
for a saying of Crusoe *(Crusoe says to Crusoe, "Crusoe you should say 
'Crusoe'".)*

h0p3 I really like your writing which is both tech-jiggled and wanting to 
get to the point.

I sometimes think we could help writers by giving more examples of writing 
in TW?

Best wishes
J.

h0p3 wrote:
>
> Agreed. I'm always trying to convince the writers I know to give TW a 
> spin, and this is one of those simple mechanics which turn out to be super 
> useful. 
>

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Re: [tw5] [Outreach] Communicating to writers the benefits of TW -- #21 FUTURE TIDDLERS

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Agreed. I'm always trying to convince the writers I know to give TW a spin,
and this is one of those simple mechanics which turn out to be super
useful. Whether they are building character bibles, graphing their plots,
or mind-mapping their epistemic periphery, placeholders are outstanding
"to-do" or even "maybe" flags sitting in your writing. For me, it's an
organization tool helping me break bigger problems down into smaller ones,
and it helps me explicitly state to myself that I need to expand or connect
something in the first place. When I'm in the flowstate, I don't have time
write in every direction I'm thinking; I have to triage. Placeholders help
me leave the breadcrumbs necessary to come back and iteratively grow some
web of thought.

There's another kind of placeholder I use as well. Sometimes, I have
something to say, but I don't quite know where to put it or what I should
name it. I need to get it out on a page and worry about how to categorize
it later. "Create a new tiddler" automatically applies "PH" to my title.
Sometimes I'll spin up several placeholder tiddlers until I've figured out
how they fit into the bigger picture and why.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:31 AM @TiddlyTweeter 
wrote:

> Here we tend to focus on technical solutions to technical problems.
>
> That is good.
>
> But I think we often underplay the obvious for potential users. We
> under-promote what we have already normally.
>
> For a moment *consider TW as a Writing Medium*, by which I mean normal
> authors of fiction or fact.
>
> One outstanding thing is that you can so easily create "placeholders". A
> ref to a Tiddler that does NOT yet exist. That is exactly like many
> people's writing process. You know you need to "fill in gaps" later to make
> better writings. TW facilitates that very well indeed.
>
> For instance a writer needs to know they can write a text referencing
> stuff they need to expand on but haven't written the expansions yet. TW
> EASILY provides the "placeholders" for these.
>
> This simple mechanism is not advertised enough IMO.
>
> Best wishes
> Josiah
>
>
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[tw5] [Outreach] Communicating to writers the benefits of TW -- #21 FUTURE TIDDLERS

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Here we tend to focus on technical solutions to technical problems.

That is good.

But I think we often underplay the obvious for potential users. We 
under-promote what we have already normally.

For a moment *consider TW as a Writing Medium*, by which I mean normal 
authors of fiction or fact.

One outstanding thing is that you can so easily create "placeholders". A 
ref to a Tiddler that does NOT yet exist. That is exactly like many 
people's writing process. You know you need to "fill in gaps" later to make 
better writings. TW facilitates that very well indeed.

For instance a writer needs to know they can write a text referencing stuff 
they need to expand on but haven't written the expansions yet. TW EASILY 
provides the "placeholders" for these.

This simple mechanism is not advertised enough IMO.

Best wishes
Josiah



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