Jorge Arango talks about his writing process.
He actually co-authored a book on Information Architecture in 2015. This vid more about his latest.
uses lots of paper notebooks
Mentions 3 (obvious) phases in his non-fiction writing
research
structuring
writing
Says all three req diff tools. (he uses Obsidian f research)
Stage 1 research, vague idea about what topic, (s paper notebooks, index/sequence them) His book duly noted is on this phase.
Stage 2 structuring. mistake to go directly to writing.
(vgl [[A System for Writing by Bob Doto]] )
Mentions author Robert Caro who had book structure on his wall story book like, vgl what I do when writing reports w wall of post its for structure. Limitation is size of wall. But physcial movement helpt. He does this type of wall in [[Tinderbox]] !!!! canvas, with the sticky notes having metadata. His chapter and heading structure emerges from it! Prevents getting lost in the details. Shows him what is missing too (looping back to research phase sometimes).
It's not writing but getting a sense of the narrative flow of the entire thing. Seems like outlining of talks, but a book is bigger and thus the outlining is more filled out with links to material
What question would a reader have entering chapter 2 after reading chapter 1, and go from there.
Has opening story/anecdote for each chapter. Mwah.
Uses the story board view like how the periodic table suggested the existence of atoms that had not been discovered yet. Dmitri Mendleev.
Stage 3 writing
After structuring the writing tools come into play. He used Scrivener, avoiding having a monolithic text. Now Ulysses, in markdown. Uses word count targets in these tools for sections/chapters
set up supportive environments for each pahse
structure first but keep flexible, don't make it a linear process, but structure ulnocks the writing
swith modalities - walking, free form in [[Tinderbox]] or another tool, to avoid getting stuck.