The mental sausage* of modern storytelling
OR
How we do
@micahsaul made my brain work overtime on this.
*mental sausage is a term that was probably coined by Merlin Mann and I only assume that its okay that I use it here?
Not that you need my permission, but you are absolutely okay to use it anywhere. Honored. Thanks.
I realize that “using paper” should (intellectually) have zero effect on how I think about something, but I find exactly the opposite to be true.
Typing on a keyboard vs. using a pen on paper vs. talking to others or out-loud to myself deliver such wildly different results — and wildly different angles, approaches, insights, connections, synthesis vs. analysis, etc. — that I can’t even imagine trying to work on any project you really care about without iterating between the three.
Tool debates are fun and funny, but the truth is everything and nothing work equally well depending on how much you understand and care about what you’re making. I often don’t realize just how much I care about or understand something until I notice a piece of paper trying to tell me so.
See also: hammers and tree houses.
agreed. it sucks that i have such crappy handwriting. product of my grandfathers being doctors? or just cursive being too slow?
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