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title: "Teh worth of a workd"
date: 2024-03-12T10:21:37+05:30
categories: ["Game"]
tags: ["writing","flow","casual","microessay","freewriting"]
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Writing is an involved process. A rough overview is as follows:
- you think of an idea
- you build upon that idea with what you already know
- you structure out some initial drafts
- you run it under a careful eye to scrape out the loopholes
- you edit it, to the point of satisfaction

The problem with that process is the last bullet right there. It makes
the worth of a word in the moment diminish than the act of etching
something down in stone.

Up until this point in this microessay (excluding the title), I've been editing out typos
immediately and am maintaining a reversibility of around ~5
words. That is an interesting exercise but it isn't the end of the
world.

From the end of this sentence, whatever I type, stays as if I've
etched it onto stone. I keep the typso as well and do not
backtrack. There is no backspace, no tab completoin (I'm using
emacs)., no correcting punctuations that I did not intend to fill in,
no grammatical corrections, ; if my sentence sounds like sh\*t, my
sentences\* are shi\*t.

This is a lexical game that I''ll be regularly practicing henceforth
to ramp up the worth of a workd. It's going to be more attuned towards
natural language as there's no time travel whn you talk. you can't fix
up something in the past. All that I can change is the formating
(using markdown) so that teh medium doesn't get in the way of my words
beging portrayed the way I realize tehm first in my mind.

Now, typos are not a thought but an action issue and hwo well I
control my fingures (damn it...), I do see some phonetic overloading
going on that is infuluencing my base intuitions of awhat a word looks
likt.

Core biases when I type something are slso survacing readily and it is
quite interesting to see how we favor certain areas of the keyboard
when we think of a letter rather than that specific key. For instance,
",",".","'",";" are all somewhat intuitively grouped into a cluster
with the specificity being recalled upon based on the context of your
current phase of thought when you're typing own a sentence.

what is teh oint of this exercise you may ask:-
- I wis hto rveal my true though process
- types are an initial hurdle that I'll just have to ignore and get
better at in the background
- the major baeneifit is that I get to actually write like I'm
thinking in the moment.
- I could plan way before I write adwon a sentence but that would
suck the joy ourt of this and wouldn't allow me to completely
explore my base inclinations.
- Humans, can figure out types -> typose pretty esily and this
shouldn't readily hinder their comprehension. I'd only user -> use
unnatural devices (-> is not a part of natral language) to avoid
conufusion in cases of semantic overlap.s.


All such posts will be tagged as free-writing ; this is a micro-essay
as well and I lpan on doing these more often or atleast one a day. Of
course , you may rely me (fit in an on before the me in there) to
conduct this out honestly and not feign spontatneity .

I've go t some other lexical gaems as well that i occasionaly enjoy ;
will talk about thame in other posts. This is enough lexical crime
commited for the day.

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