Practicing Writing
I suspect some people are getting stuck on learning about projects because they have trouble with writing. Writing is a prerequisite to doing much learning here or at any other written forum. You can post short audio clips in the Docs section or use transcription, btw. There's also voice chat on the FI Discord that no one uses.
But I know all of you can talk out loud, pretty quickly, and without getting stuck very often. Saying a couple sentences isn't that hard for you. But writing a couple sentences can be way harder.
So practice writing. How?
But I know all of you can talk out loud, pretty quickly, and without getting stuck very often. Saying a couple sentences isn't that hard for you. But writing a couple sentences can be way harder.
So practice writing. How?
- Talk out loud (literally) and then write down what you said. (Keep it to around 1-5 sentences.)
- Talk to dictation software (like siri or google docs) so it types it for you as you speak.
- If you're a fast touch typist who can touch type without paying conscious attention to it, you could try talking slowly and typing it simultaneously.
- Record yourself talking and then write it out (or get it transcribed by the computer).
You need to be able to write lots of posts without getting stuck or you're not going to be able to learn much here.
Topic doesn't matter if you're practicing writing, except it shouldn't be very hard. It's harder to practice multiple things at once, like writing and also dealing with a hard topic.
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that's not intuitive for me btw. stuff like this perspective difference makes it harder for me to help ppl. for me, writing is a bit easier than talking.
this process is not exactly the same as any of your steps. but this method does take the power of talking outloud, and then converts it into text.