Don’t read! Or how to start writing
Martin Lenz,
Handling Ideas,
Dec 17, 2021
I have to say I'm of the same mind on this article about beginning to write by 'doing the reading'. "More often than not it crushes good ideas and leaves you with a half-alien set of positions that you'll have difficulty to form an opinion about." Instead, "employ a number of strategies to spread out your proposal. Only when you have done so, should you begin to dip into the literature. The upside is that now you will have concrete questions that you want answered. At the same time, the fact that you have written out your ideas will (hopefully) prevent you from feeling delegitimised by the discussions you are going to encounter." I would also add that now you have a much more precise sense of what to search for. That is pretty much how I actually do it, and I feel it allows me to have a voice while at the same time becoming well versed in what others have said.
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