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Re:Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft by signal11 on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:52PM (#21508233)
Among professional authors, John Scalzi has said many times that he edits as he goes along[1].

For shorter academic and work pieces (and back when I blogged) I’ve done this as well, but I do an outline for longer papers first, and then edit as I go. Of course I wasn’t anywhere near nickjj’s level of output.

[1] https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fanta...

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Re:Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft by m463 on Monday November 11, 2019 @03:44PM (#21508694)
After Old Man's war I read everything Scalzi wrote and he wrote a lot of short stories and no novels. Maybe that explains it?
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