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I’m much more go with the flow than planning. I think it’s because I’m trying to write every day, and I don’t treat the challenge articles as much different than my other work; I pick an idea, let it sit in my head for a day or two, then write somewhere between 700 and 1500 words about it. My next step for any particular article is crap for competitions; I wait six months and come back to the article for a revision. It might be a minor thing I change; sometimes it’s a full rewrite. But I need that space between the initial draft and the next to clear my head and come at the idea fresh.

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