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Re:Good writing is a business advantage by kd5bjo on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:00PM (#23023489)
> If you have half the typing speed, revising takes twice as long

In my experience, this isn't true. When revising, most of my time is spent considering what changes I can make and not putting them into practice. If the bottleneck is thinking, raising your typing speed will provide marginal gains at best.

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Re:Good writing is a business advantage by JoshTriplett on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:11PM (#23023608)
I'm not suggesting that revising is solely a matter of re-reading and re-typing. I'm suggesting that I've found them to be a notable component, and that I can do more revising when I can quickly take a possible revision and type it out and reread it to see how it looks.
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Re:Good writing is a business advantage by Kinrany on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#23023676)
It's true if you're using writing for thinking.

(Not claiming that that's actually faster, or otherwise.)

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