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+title: How To Write
+date: 2026-04-06
+layout: column.njk
+tags: column
+permalink: /columns/2026/how-to-write/
+---
+
+## Prompt
+- The kernel of an idea
+- It's generally recommended to plant a seed first
+    - something you can return to over time
+    - reference other ideas you come across
+    - develop and refine
+
+## Questions
+- Questions give structure to your work
+- Even implicit ones - the unsaid queries that motivate the composition of the piece
+    - what's included, and when?
+    - as important: what's left out?
+    - make everything a deliberate choice
+- Why write, if not to test an idea against your own specific qualities? To see if there's a reaction, some expansiveness or contraction.
+- They provide the substrate to thought, and the nourishment, encouraging the frontier to expand
+
+## Rough Notes
+- The heap
+- The outlet for stream of consciousness thinking
+    - See what associations bubble up to the surface
+    - See what resonates, what clusters, the affinities that form
+- The warmup
+
+## Quotes
+- For the sake of having an opinion, I say it's better to rearticulate someone's idea in your own words, to digest it with your own acuity, than to simply reexpress the idea as a quote.
+- Other than stating something factually: at such a time, such a thing was said
+- Refernce it, so motivated readers can connect with more writing that may expand on the idea.
+- But don't just repeat the statement verbatim. Connect with the idea, exppress it in your own way for your own audience. Make it available.