FROM: Linking is writing

In particular, I think it works really well if you stretch your memory to recall pieces you have read or pieces that you have written that are relevant to whatever you are writing today. Then you go to search and you find them, grab the link and add it to your text.

Over time, as you keep pursuing a subject, all that linking well help you lock down the key parts of the subject you are covering. You’ll find you keep linking back to certain pieces, and that will show you that those pieces are the heart of your understanding.

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