On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:15 PM, twgrp wrote: > ...if linearized as late as in the wordprocessor, you'd be forced to > continually transfer things to get an overview of where you are in the > composing process.
Perhaps I have not made as much use of TW in composing as I could have. For me it has primarily been a way to move from relatively random note taking to a relatively clearly thought out and organized understanding of the issues and ideas I'm writing about. I have not attempted to use it to take me through to a nearly final, let alone final, exposition. When I get to the editing stage, I am relying heavily on my organized notes to keep me on-track, but I am really doing my first exposition for an outside audience, i.e., composing the first draft for the intended audience. And I'm doing it in a wordprocessor. Perhaps I could get closer to this nearly final stage remaining in TW than I have tried to do so far. I'll give it a try. As it is now, when I'm ready to write, I turn to the wordprocessor. > Also, you'll be missing out on a very powerful > "bottom-up approach" to parallel writing that I will soon describe > here. Basically this is "incidentally" generating books by letting > tiddlers group over time. I'm intrigued. I'll be interested in hearing more. Not sure what you mean by "parallel writing," though. The value of TW for me is realized in the manual work I do with it -- tagging, structuring tagging, revising tagging. A way I've thought of it to myself is as starting in a real, almost random, free writing way, and letting the structure emerge in the process of that. But there is a distinctly manual, though definitely not mechanical, dimension to it. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
