Some great ideas, thank you! My Substack is a mix of class content, teaching moments, how-to's, and quite a bit of my take on these things. Some articles are completely my opinion along with personal anecdotes. So, your suggestions have gotten my mind rolling in new ways. As I stroll through Facebook, X/Twitter and the mainstream national news, I copy and paste webpages, or article bits into my Substack drafts pages along with a sketchy title and date for the post to drop. Then, as I move through my scheduled articles, I go over some of the potentials. Some actually make it to the published page! Some are entirely scratched, or one small piece will inspire a completely new article approach. Creativity is awesome.
Walter, Thanks for answering my question so completely! I wish I could highlight your article like I would on Medium. Your response is amazingly helpful. I will have to read it several times and pull out all the relevant ideas and reminders for myself.
Rather than noting the anecdote (which can in fact be segue'ed into no end of "conclusions"), I actually write a paragraph about it. Now, this can stumble up against your last point, which is "try to remember", because the anecdote is invariably suggested inductively (as the starting point for an observation not directly linked to it), and the deductive reasoning back to the point I was trying to make, and from which I started from, can later prove elusive. The stages in that "deductive" path of reasoning should therefore be noted as well.
Great common sense tips. Thanks Walter
Thank you, I'm glad it's helpful!
Some great ideas, thank you! My Substack is a mix of class content, teaching moments, how-to's, and quite a bit of my take on these things. Some articles are completely my opinion along with personal anecdotes. So, your suggestions have gotten my mind rolling in new ways. As I stroll through Facebook, X/Twitter and the mainstream national news, I copy and paste webpages, or article bits into my Substack drafts pages along with a sketchy title and date for the post to drop. Then, as I move through my scheduled articles, I go over some of the potentials. Some actually make it to the published page! Some are entirely scratched, or one small piece will inspire a completely new article approach. Creativity is awesome.
That sounds like a very good approach. I have a scratchboard myself!
Very visual! I like that idea.
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Wildly helpful! Many thanks.
I'm pleased to hear that!
Walter, Thanks for answering my question so completely! I wish I could highlight your article like I would on Medium. Your response is amazingly helpful. I will have to read it several times and pull out all the relevant ideas and reminders for myself.
I'm glad it's helpful Sandra! I had a wonderful time writing it!
Much of my stuff contains a personal anecdote of some kind or another (anyone interested can see my trilingual article here, where I make precisely this point: https://endlesschain.substack.com/p/how-i-writecomment-jecrishoe-ik-schrijf; here's an early blog article festooned with personal anecdotes: https://endlesschain.substack.com/p/herding-cats).
Rather than noting the anecdote (which can in fact be segue'ed into no end of "conclusions"), I actually write a paragraph about it. Now, this can stumble up against your last point, which is "try to remember", because the anecdote is invariably suggested inductively (as the starting point for an observation not directly linked to it), and the deductive reasoning back to the point I was trying to make, and from which I started from, can later prove elusive. The stages in that "deductive" path of reasoning should therefore be noted as well.
Excellent tips! Thank you 😊
Thanks for reading!
My pleasure😌
Pretty much every conversation I have with people leaves me with material for one or more pieces.
This is why a lot of my down time is just chatting. It's relaxing, but still generating resources for future work.
Online conversations with chat logs are gold mines - message people in Stack and you can even leave yourself lists!
(Or if Notes are ever searchable...)
That's very true. The comments in notes send my thinking in a lot of different directions, particularly the people who disagree with me :)
That time mulling is crucial!
I agree!
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