Sometimes we don’t start on a writing project because we fear we don’t have enough information.
Our goal should be having just enough information to get started. Not necessarily to finish, because we won’t know what we need to know until we start writing.
There’s also a danger that if we gather a lot of information that will deter us from starting. Confession time: I’m doing that at the moment. I plan to write a report about crowdfunding. I’ve been putting information about that from the internet into a file. That file is now so fat that I don’t even want to think about having to wade through it. Of course my rational mind knows that a lot of that information is bound to be duplication but the sheer number of pages is a deterrent.
My plan is to put about ten percent of that information into a new folder and use it to start writing the report. Soon enough I’ll find out what else I need to know and I’ll look for it in the 90% folder.
That could work for you, too.
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