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Kellogg is always careful to emphasize the extreme cognitive
demands of writing, which is very flattering. "Serious writing
is at once a thinking task, a language task, and a memory task,"
he declares. It requires the same kind of mental effort as a
high-level chess match or an expert musical performance. We are
all aspiring Mozarts indeed. So what's holding us back? How does
one write faster? Kellogg terms the highest level of writing as
"knowledge-crafting." In that state, the writer's brain is
juggling three things: the actual text, what you plan to say
next, and—most crucially—theories of how your imagined
readership will interpret what's being written. A highly skilled
writer can simultaneously be a writer, editor, and audience.
Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to
becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing
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