browngirl

Thanks for sharing that. One of the responses pointed out a factor that hadn't occurred to me before, and it would seem to make a difference: the novel writer doesn't necessarily know how the story is going to turn out when he sits down to write it. While this is broadly true of non-fiction writing as well, the uncertainties are more about presentation than content. For example, half-way through writing a manual I might decide that there's a better order in which to present things, and that means I'll have to go back and change some of the set-up writing I did at the beginning. Sometimes I do that on the spot (if it's simple), and other times I log it for later.