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3mins \- Three Minutes Writing
.SH AUTHOR
Artyom Bologov
.SH SYNOPSIS
We’re all suffering with attention deficit. So let’s finally write like we do.
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I just finished watching second season of Arcane.
One of the focal moments was this Silco’s monologue.
Delivered to Jinx when she’s sitting in a jail and going (even more) insane.

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Killing is a cycle. One that started long before Vander and me. And it will continue long after the two of you. [...] We build our own prisons. Bars forged of oaths, codes, commitments. Walls of self-doubt and accepted limitation. We inhabit these cells, these identities, and call them “us.” I thought I could break free by eliminating those I deemed my jailors. But... Jinx... I think the cycle only ends when you find the will to walk away.
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— Silco’s monologue, Arcane season 2 episode 8

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It wasn’t focal because it was a good monologue (it wasn’t one.)
Or because it coincided with episode name/topic (episode name was mostly meaningless.)
It was focal because I realized: I can’t understand it.
I had to read it as text to digest it.
Otherwise it was just white noise to me.

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As I’ve already said,
\fBscrollbar (7)\fP
I need scrollbars to allocate attention for reading.
My attention deficit is that bad.
Yours is likely close to that.
That’s why we all need Three Minutes Writing.

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As a writer, my goal is to deliver the idea.
In a form I myself can understand later.
Three Minutes Writing means:

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* Write small paragraphs and sections.
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* Add visual anchors:
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* sections,
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* lists,
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* code listings,
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* quotes.
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* Keep the language simple.
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* Keep the scrollbar big.
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* Optimize for three minutes of reading time!

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My
\fBhypertext (7)\fP
longer-form
\fBprose-vs-tweet (7)\fP
writing
fails at these, and I often get comments like

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So chaotic writing. I try to distill the essence from this article, but it is jumping back and forth between different topics
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— u/Revolutionary_Ad7262 on Printf is Useless

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My sweet person, I can’t focus on it either.
Sorry.

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So let’s all focus on Three Minutes Writing instead.
We need to understand each other, right?

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See also

.UR https://todepond.com/wikiblogarden/academia/style/two-beat
Two beat style by Lu Wilson
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CC-BY 4.0
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