Writing takes forever?

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Anybody else find writing of almost any kind takes a very long time? A simple e-mail can take half an hour sometimes, as I think and think-over whether it's polite, etc. Writing something more formally, like an essay, can also take an extremely long amount of time due to perfectionism.

Yeah writing is a long labourious process. And I am never totally satisfied with whatever I write. When I did essays I would absorb as much as I could about the subject and just think about it. Then I would write it out the night before the hand in date. It usually worked out okay did some good ones.

At the moment I am trying to write a book and have written several drafts but not satisfied.

yes, my issue is auditioning everything I've written. rereading it too many times to make sure I like the sound of the total content. every time an edit occurs, I then have to reread the whole thing, so it isn't done until I stop making changes and finish a few rereads of the completed product.

Emails don't give me much trouble, but I almost never finish any novel ideas or school papers.

I always had trouble with papers until I learned the trick to getting really good grades:

1. Plagerize the best parts of the best research.
2. Re-word each plagerized part by as much as feasable without changing the person's main thesis and don't forget to footnote
3. Use a few connecting sentences between the different parts
4. Make a general conclusion trying to find some unification that leads to novelty
5. Go back and do 1 paragraph in this introduction discussing what you're going to talk about

For science/philosophy papers, this simple technique made me become a better essay writer than I was with multiple choice/calculation-type exams. Unfortunately, it didn't help with essay exams.

Yeah, even responding to a single post can take forever.
My spelling and grammar must be acceptable.
I must not leave anything out (though I usually do) so I double check what I've written about 5 times.
Even after I post it I read it again and again, like I'm approving a work of art.
"Oh, I should add more shading there. Oh, that's not how it's supposed to look. Actually, I'm kind of proud of that. I will leave it."

Interesting question.

Well... in my case I'm very fast in keyboard writing (and I usually write large texts following as best as possible all the rules of the language that I'm using), and it only takes me 1 or 3 minutes to check and correct the errors.

But I'm the totally opossite in hand writing: my letter is awful and I'm a little slow XD. In fact I HATE to do other manual things things like drawing, titles to school billboards, etc, because I have weak skills in those areas.

I'm similar to most of you in the aspect that I'm very perfectionist when I write, I'm always worried to follow all the rules and sometimes that makes me review my comments many times searching and correcting their mistakes.

Regards.

Last edited by Sextus70 on 08 Dec 2010, 11:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.

It takes me a long time to write, as well. That's the reason that I like to type everything out on the computer.

I used to be extremely slow at writing but I have been getting faster as I do more of it. Can't write at all by hand.

Yeah, I'm glad to see I am not alone with this. It takes me forever to write a post or e-mail. I can spend a great deal of time trying to find the right way to word what I want to say. I will then read it over and over and keep making changes unit I have what I want. Even then I am still not happy.

Yes, putting my thoughts in words (when the thoughts are complex) takes very long time to me, but I'm able to make more complex phrases than other people. (even if slower)
Guess it's related to the Working Memory problems most of the Aspeies have.