Slow writing creates condensed poetry and unexpected sentence paths

Evidence

If you persist—and “each page,” I wrote, “is like a wall to be painted”—what comes out is a kind of irritable, condensed poetry. Your hand moves so slowly that you can keep changing your mind about what you are going to say, and sentences can end up anywhere at all. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 11

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 11
• XREF: connects to: Extreme slow walking reveals subtle bodily energies normally masked — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 235; Writers make split-second structural decisions during the haste of composition — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1095

Broader Connections

• Extreme slow walking reveals subtle bodily energies normally masked #exemplifies (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 235
• Writers make split-second structural decisions during the haste of composition #complicates (0.60) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1095