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by andsoitis 668 days ago
A project manager or bizdev person writes, rewrites, and rewrites again the document they produce do they not? Or do they write the perfect document at first go?
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Worst kind of jira ticket is just a link to a document that can be edited anytime. In that case I just replace the link with a new link pointing to the fixed version of the document and inform the author of the ticket/document about it.
Depending on what kind of document it is, I often resort to extracting its contents with pandoc by converting it into markdown, and then replacing the original description. Makes search work properly too.
If I'm writing something, I'm writing it once. That "prewriting" stuff they teach in schools just slows down the process and makes you overthink your choice of words. I take the same "1 take" approach with code with the idea being to write the best solution on the first try. Why waste time writing something bad just so you can fix it later? That doesn't make any sense.

As I'm writing, I do go back and make changes as they pop into my head. But once I'm done writing it, I'm done unless I notice an obvious mistake after the fact.

1. You don’t take any notes or make any bullet points?

2. > As I'm writing, I do go back and make changes as they pop into my head

This contradicts the idea that you only write once.

3. You don’t get feedback on your first finished version and make changes?

Don't think of the first iteration as "prewriting" and instead think of the subsequent iteration as "editing."