Thinking it through.
Every once in a while when I’m writing, I feel like I’m on a roll. I let the thoughts spill, letter by letter, until I feel satisfied that I’ve managed to get out what I had in mind. At the time it feels like I’m on the verge of an amazing insight, simply because, in these moments, writing feels easy. I realise later on that there’s no necessary connection between ease of expression and insight once I actually revisit the work. Everything is disconnected and vauge- in an attempt to get it all down, I’m not clarifying my thinking.
I guess that’s why it’s called prewriting- its imprecision reflects its exploratory nature. I know my main idea is buried under all this expository superfluity-now how do I tease it out?
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