2013年9月28日 星期六

What Should a Digital Writing Tool Be?

To find out more, I interviewed Editorially's CEO and co-founder, Mandy Brown. I interviewed her by writing in Editorially itself (meta!) and, during the course of our interview, she asked Editorially's CTO, David Yee, and another editor who frequently uses the service, Nicole Fenton, to pitch in. All three of them,The younger Mr. Crum said the cousins went their separate ways after a couple of years in business together,all terrain crane only to have his father take over the station a few years later after a brief stint working for Toledo Concrete Pipe Co. using Editorially, contributed paragraphs of their own and edited them together — a kind of further statement about how writing should work. The product of that process is below; the bolded words are mine.What is more, labor is in short supply and house prices are rising at a moderate clip wheel loader— a big contrast to the average among euro zone states, let alone recession-troubled countries such as Italy. 

One of the things we think a lot about is the process by which a shitty first draft gets reworked into something great. In fact, an internal version of our website read,Workers gathered the bundles and stacked them into shocks. Weeks later, a noisy steam-powered threshing machine lumbered up a lane to a barn aerial working platform, where workers hauled in the sheaves and dumped them into the machine's maw. "Everything you need to bring a shitty first draft to final publication." So many of the questions we ask ourselves come back to that: how does a draft evolve over time? How do we — writers and editors — identify what a draft needs and encourage each other to get there? How can we be critical of each other's work in a way that is constructive rather than dispiriting?Part of Editorially's not terribly secret goal is to create a history of that process — a path of drafts and revisions and conversations — that can be unwound and observed and learned from. 

We want to help people work better, but we also want to help them improve their craft in ways they can articulate and share with others. So, we don't just want better writing,Moderator speed reducer and NPS professor Bradley J. Strawser said the machine was incapable of being controlled at long distances, meaning it must operate on its own at times.I think it's a continued race to the bottom and we're gonna fight to continue to have a value to the artists and the music that we put out laundry equipment, Borchetta said in a backstage Q&A with Billboard Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena in Vegas. but better writers, too."GitHub for writers" is a phrase that gets peddled around from time to time, and it's very appealing. Git had a transformative effect on the collaborative design of software, so it's tempting to think it could do the same for text. But Git has a few things working against it as far as writing goes: it's very difficult to learn, and its approach to version control is simultaneously too sophisticated and too crude. It can do a lot, but it doesn't do the few things writers need especially well.

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