Legal Writing

This month marks the third anniversary of the Manage Your Writing blog. Because only a few current subscribers were with us in our first few months, I'm occasionally going to recycle what I think are the best early posts. This is one of them.

Most business writers try to edit, sentence by sentence, as we draft. We let our "Internal Editor" get in the way of our "Internal Writer."

We can write more efficiently and effectively if we give ourselves permission to write quick-and-dirty drafts, and edit them later.

This week, as an experiment, turn off your computer monitor while you're drafting. You'll learn what it feels like to draft without editing, and you'll be more able to turn off your Internal Editor even when your monitor is on